misemployed

Also, they do not reflect those individuals who are misemployed because they cannot find suitable work in their own field and are forced to work at menial, inappropriate jobs.

Give the Stimulus Some Credit 2009

In the case of Wall Street's current troubles, clever and well-paid people created a host of complex debt instruments that were then sold to other clever and well-paid people who were similarly misemployed -- with catastrophic results.

Expensive Mistakes 2008

The artillery arm was large in size, but badly handled and often misemployed.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

The artillery arm was large in size, but badly handled and often misemployed.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

So many circumstances unite in rendering the present state of it distressful to us that you will not think any deliberations misemployed which may lead to its relief and protection.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

If that plan fails, he shall indeed, he declares have "lost much Time, and misemployed much Pains; and what is above all, shall miss the Pleasure of thinking that in the Decline of my Health and Life, I have conferred a great and lasting Benefit on my Country."

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

Those who have lived only for this world must never expect anything but self-reproach in reviewing the opportunities of usefulness which they have lost, and the precious talents they have misemployed.

Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages Anonymous

To which he replies that, as long as there are hands unemployed and misemployed, a government such as he would see need never be at a loss for labourers.

The Life of John Ruskin Collingwood, W G 1911

If that plan fails, he shall indeed, he declares have “lost much Time, and misemployed much Pains; and what is above all, shall miss the Pleasure of thinking that in the Decline of my Health and Life, I have conferred a great and lasting Benefit on my Country.”

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

From the Didachê and Lucian we learn that such abuses did arise, and that privileges were misemployed.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908