mismanage

[mis-man-ij]

verb (used with or without object)

mismanaged, mismanaging 

1. to manage incompetently or dishonestly.

   to mismanage funds.

   Synonyms: maladminister, botch, bungle, mishandle

mismanage

/ ˌmɪsˈmænɪdʒ /

verb

1. (tr) to manage badly or wrongly

Other Word Forms

• mismanagement noun
• mismanager noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of mismanage¹

First recorded in 1680–90; mis- ¹ + manage

Example Sentences

Jones regressed and got benched—raising concerns that Belichick had mismanaged the young passer’s development.

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He was fastest in the first session and said he felt Ferrari had mismanaged the rest of qualifying.

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“The easiest thing would have been for Robert to plow on until he truly pegged out and by which time the estate probably would have been run into the ground or mismanaged,” Bonneville says.

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It wasn’t their fault that the wars they found themselves in were misbegotten and mismanaged.

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But decades of seeing mine safety regulations weakened after disasters, poverty statistics ignored, or flood relief funds absent or mismanaged, eroded that commons.

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Related Words

• botch 
• bungle 
• mishandle 
• misinterpret