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
Brendan GillExamples of mismanage in a Sentence
the business was mismanaged so seriously that it eventually had to declare bankruptcy
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Established in the early days of pandemic shutdowns in 2020, the IDES program for enhanced unemployment insurance was overwhelmed with claims and badly mismanaged, the Illinois auditor general found in a report issued in 2023.
—Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
The contours remain the same: negligent and mismanaged staff fail to prevent frequent incidents of violence in ways that harm both the people incarcerated at the facility and the staff themselves.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
Listen to this article Maria-Elena Giner, an appointee of former President Joe Biden who is credited with overhauling the underfunded and mismanaged U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission, has been replaced with a President Donald Trump appointee.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2025
In January, months after filing a suit against Danny, Antonia and Johanna claimed that their brother mismanaged Tony's money for years — and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the family trust.
—Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
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Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
The contours remain the same: negligent and mismanaged staff fail to prevent frequent incidents of violence in ways that harm both the people incarcerated at the facility and the staff themselves.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 May 2025
Listen to this article Maria-Elena Giner, an appointee of former President Joe Biden who is credited with overhauling the underfunded and mismanaged U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission, has been replaced with a President Donald Trump appointee.
—Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2025
In January, months after filing a suit against Danny, Antonia and Johanna claimed that their brother mismanaged Tony's money for years — and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the family trust.
—Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for mismanage
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“Mismanage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mismanage. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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