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Mismanage   /mɪsmˈænɪdʒ/   Listen
Mismanage

verb
1.
Manage badly or incompetently.  Synonyms: misconduct, mishandle.



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"Mismanage" Quotes from Famous Books



... properly trained. Well, as to the other girls, it appears that my father has decided to accept my offer of sending Susie to a first-class boarding-school; and, as he has determined to do the same for Laura, there is only Dottie for Mattie to manage or mismanage. So you see, Gracie, your school-room drudgery is over. Mother herself, by her own will, ...
— Not Like Other Girls • Rosa N. Carey

... the baron knew it and made no objection. He was a determined bachelor, a gallant, and the friend and patron of libertines. His chief defect was his forgetfulness and absence of mind, which made him mismanage important business. ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... you,—Lords Withrington and Derwentwater, Mr. Forester, and about six hundred English gentlemen. Your Lordship may be sure this was very agreeable news to me, and now, with the blessing of God, if we do not mismanage, I think our game can scarce fail. By Brigadier Mackintosh's letter, it seems the English are all for your going to England in a body to put into execution a certain design, and our countrymen are for ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. - Volume I. • Mrs. Thomson

... can easily get himself elected upon one of the numerous councils; having mismanaged his own affairs until he has none left to manage, he appears to regard himself as a fit and proper person to mismanage the business of other people, and the brief authority which his position confers gives him a welcome opportunity of letting ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory

... and recordation of proceedings, and enforcing obedience to every general law which the Legislature has laid down on the subject of local management. That some such laws ought to be laid down few are likely to deny. The localities may be allowed to mismanage their own interests, but not to prejudice those of others, nor violate those principles of justice between one person and another of which it is the duty of the state to maintain the rigid observance. If the local majority attempts ...
— Considerations on Representative Government • John Stuart Mill



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