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Meanings of mismanage in English

Manage badly or incompetently.

Synonyms
Examples for "misconduct"
Examples for "misconduct"
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Particular attention must be given to reports of misconduct or whistleblower reports.
Reuters
2
He received a major penalty and game misconduct penalty after the incident.
Reuters
3
Prior health research misconduct has been documented, particularly when obtaining genetic material.
Pubmed
4
Durham police decided he had a case to answer for gross misconduct.
The Guardian
5
The situation led to the nurse ultimately being charged with professional misconduct.
Radio NZ
1
Clinton and her staff maintain she did not mishandle any information.
Reuters
2
It doesn't matter that the ministers and their courtiers shamelessly mishandle the nation's affairs.
The book of disquiet
3
As the West continuous to mishandle the electronic jihad it is proving the militants right.
Reuters
4
The group said in a statement that officials have mishandled the situation.
Ebony
5
Both sides mishandled the crisis that followed, leading to the final split.
Reuters
Usage of mismanage in English
1
Bunyan was too skilful a workman so to mismanage the matter.
Life of Bunyan
2
If you mismanage your own affairs I can't put them right for you.
The American Senator
3
Therefore, the more troops he had to mismanage the better.
On the Trail of Grant and Lee
4
And yet how sadly we mismanage men, and misuse opportunities.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melan...
5
I can't conceive how he contrived to mismanage his affairs.
North and South
6
Many African countries tend to mismanage their groundwater resources.
The South African
7
Would Durgan fail at the pinch and mismanage it so as to give the alarm?
The Grafters
8
If the Assistant Commissioner wanted to mismanage this affair nothing, of course, could prevent him.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
9
And if you chronically mismanage a pension scheme and it goes under, we're coming for you.
The Guardian
10
It is they who choose the few supreme persons who manage or mismanage the world's affairs.
Woman and the New Race
11
His chief defect was his forgetfulness and absence of mind, which made him mismanage important business.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
12
If he does not go astray in any other way, he will probably mismanage his money matters.
Castle Richmond
13
A Parliamentary commission in Britain is calling for bank executives to be jailed for reckless misconduct if they mismanage a bank.
Radio NZ
14
There were so many ways to mismanage the transition... to blow it... even before external influences arrived to make matters worse.
Existence
15
However badly people mismanage our affairs for us, things have a wonderful way of working out all right in the long run.
The Vision of Desire
16
There was no denying the fact that, mismanage his own private affairs as he might, this was a born leader of men.
The Rocks of Valpré
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