maladministered

verb

past tense of maladminister
as in damaged
to manage badly because the organization maladministered the relief effort, thousands of refugees went hungry needlessly

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  1. damaged
  2. violated
  3. abused
  4. misruled
Verb
  • The attack also damaged a nearby care home, with emergency crews evacuating 15 elderly residents, the service said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Research partners recorded the various sounds that drones make when their propellers get chipped or cracked or their motor becomes damaged or begins to fail.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of damaged
Verb
  • Frimpong concluded that plaintiffs were likely to prove the practice violated the 4th Amendment’s protection against unreasonable seizures and the 5th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
  • In a victory for the journalists, Kelly expanded a previous, temporary ruling that the administration had violated the news outlets’ Fifth Amendment right to due process.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of violated
Verb
  • The act also has been sorely abused and used as a tool to stop projects, particularly housing.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In 2023, the Illinois attorney general released a detailed report that identified 451 Catholic priests and religious brothers who the investigation found had abused at least 1,997 children across the state’s six Catholic dioceses.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of abused
Verb
  • The result is a society that feels both rule-bound and misruled, saturated with laws and yet strangely lawless.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Definition of misruled
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