Misapplied vs Misdirected - What's the difference?
misapplied | misdirected | Related terms |
(misapply)
To apply incorrectly; to misuse.
* 1913 , Sir Frederick Pollock, ?Robert Campbell, ?Oliver Augustus Saunders, The Revised Reports
(misdirect)
To direct something wrongly
*{{quote-news
, date = 21 August 2012
, first = Ed
, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true
, page =
, passage = In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected , and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.}}
To put the incorrect address on a mail item
Misapplied is a related term of misdirected.
As verbs the difference between misapplied and misdirected
is that misapplied is (misapply) while misdirected is (misdirect).misapplied
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Verb
(head)misapply
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Verb
(en-verb)- It may be that the jury in this case have misapplied the rule laid down by this Court, but not in favour of the defendants. I cannot help thinking they might well have held the watercourse to be the true boundary line between the two properties.
