MALADMINISTERING Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

maladministering

verb

present participle of maladminister

as in misconducting

to manage badly because the organization maladministered the relief effort, thousands of refugees went hungry needlessly

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You can often get prequalified to get a sense of the rate and term a lender is likely to approve you for, without damaging your credit score.

— Dan Avery,Brett Holzhauer, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
Zelensky said that a passenger train was also struck in the Mykolaiv region on Wednesday, damaging a railway station and a diesel locomotive.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

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The 230-page lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Northern California, accuses Meta of fraud and false advertising, along with violating other consumer protection laws in various states.

— Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Four years ago this week, a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Jina Amini died after being detained by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating the country’s compulsory hijab rules.

— Pegah Banihashemi, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

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At no point did anyone believe that Peyton Manning or SNL espoused abusing kids.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Sep. 2026
According to Dutch News, Ben Saunders struggled with health issues and had various run-ins with law enforcement over the years, including a 2016 community service sentence for abusing a traffic official.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2026

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