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past tense of mishandle
Synonyms & Antonyms of mishandled
1
to inflict physical or emotional harm upon
- having been shuffled from foster home to foster home, the orphaned girl felt she had been mishandled by an uncaring society
Synonyms for mishandled
- abused,
- brutalized,
- bullied,
- ill-treated,
- ill-used,
- kicked around,
- maltreated,
- manhandled,
- messed over
- [slang],
- mistreated,
- misused
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3
to manage badly
- we took over as soon as we realized that the fill-in had been mishandling the situation
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