maladminister

[mal-uhd-min-uh-ster]

verb (used with object)

1. to administer or manage badly or inefficiently.

   The mayor was a bungler who maladministered the city budget.

maladminister

/ ˌmælədˈmɪnɪstə /

verb

1. (tr) to administer badly, inefficiently, or dishonestly

Other Word Forms

• maladministration noun
• maladministrator noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of maladminister¹

First recorded in 1695–1705; mal- + administer

Example Sentences

The house in which I am writing is wonderful enough, really; one of the few that have outlived 1812—old, thick walls, as in Schönhausen, Oriental architecture, Moorish, large rooms, almost entirely occupied by the chancery officers, who administer, or maladminister, Jussupow's estates.

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• flub 
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