Thesaurus
Synonyms and Antonyms of mishandled
- having been shuffled from foster home to foster home, the orphaned girl felt she had been mishandled by an uncaring society
abused, brutalized, bullied, ill-treated, ill-used, kicked around, maltreated, manhandled, messed over [slang], mistreated, misused
cared (for), cherished, fostered, nurtured
babied, catered (to), coddled, favored, gratified, humored, indulged, mollycoddled, pampered, spoiled (or chiefly British spoilt)
- adopted a sadly mishandled puppy from the pound
abused, ill-treated, ill-used, mistreated, misused
bashed, battered, beat, buffeted, drubbed, lambasted, licked, pommeled (or pommelled), pounded, pummeled (also pummelled), slapped, thrashed
harmed, hurt, injured, wounded
oppressed, persecuted, wronged
- we took over as soon as we realized that the fill-in had been mishandling the situation
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