Misoccupy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Misoccupy is a verb meaning To occupy with something inappropriate; to focus or spend on something unworthy.
Meaning
To occupy with something inappropriate; to focus or spend on something unworthy.
More Meanings
- To fill with something inappropriate; to provide the wrong contents for.
Example Sentences
Let them not be idle, or misoccupied.
To misoccupy the spaces of shop and church is as self-destructive as avoiding them.
Their 'brutal persecutions', he told his friend and patron the Earl of Buchan, were 'unceasingly contrived to distract & misoccupy my attention':
Desert you the misoccupied chair of justice arbitrator, the position that should be occupied by honor and contaminate not the air of heaven with the name of liberty, freedom and justice befouled by your construction.
Word Forms
- misoccupies
- misoccupying
- misoccupied
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include misfocus, misconsume, misplace, misuse, misdispose, misexpend.
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