mismanage
verb
mis·man·age
ˌmis-ˈma-nij 
mismanaged; mismanaging
: to manage (something) wrongly or poorly
mismanage a business
… started thinking that maybe employees are sometimes mismanaged because they let themselves be mismanaged. They don't fight back.—
A. J. Anderson
A. J. Anderson… even those professional Pollyannas who publicly find reason to praise the current municipal administration shake their heads in private and wonder how long we can go on deliberately mismanaging our affairs.—Brendan Gill
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Examples of mismanage in a Sentence
the business was mismanaged so seriously that it eventually had to declare bankruptcy
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Now, a Swiss court has thrown out Puech’s claims that his wealth advisor allegedly mismanaged his Hermès shares, valued at approximately $13 billion, leaving him with nothing, Bloomberg reported.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 July 2024
Basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar weighed in on the subject in 2012, opening up about an agent who mismanaged his money in the ‘80s.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 July 2024
Harris clearly mismanaged her office, Dhillon said.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 July 2024
The cases boil down to permissible circumstances in which Florida State can leave the ACC and the accompanying contractual penalties for departing, with FSU also accusing the ACC of mismanaging media rights negotiations.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 17 July 2024
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 July 2024
Basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar weighed in on the subject in 2012, opening up about an agent who mismanaged his money in the ‘80s.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 July 2024
Harris clearly mismanaged her office, Dhillon said.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 July 2024
The cases boil down to permissible circumstances in which Florida State can leave the ACC and the accompanying contractual penalties for departing, with FSU also accusing the ACC of mismanaging media rights negotiations.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 17 July 2024
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“Mismanage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mismanage. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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