It is not honor, necessarily, but sound policy, which prescribes that peace with a semi-civilized foe should not be made after a defeat; but, however justifiable the policy, the word "honor" is defaced by thus Misapplying it.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
I had so long regarded my brother as void of all discretion, and as habitually Misapplying money to vicious purposes, that I deemed it a crime of no inconsiderable degree to supply the means of his prodigality.
"Jane Talbot"
Charles Brockden Brown
I wouldn't be so afflicted as you, she growled under her breath, like a small Mrs. Partington, Misapplying her big word in her wrath, for all the world.
"The Madigans"
Miriam Michelson