Thesaurus
Synonyms and Antonyms of mishandling
- having been shuffled from foster home to foster home, the orphaned girl felt she had been mishandled by an uncaring society
- adopted a sadly mishandled puppy from the pound
abusing, ill-treating, ill-using, mistreating, misusing
bashing, battering, beating, buffeting, drubbing, lambasting, licking, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), slapping, thrashing
harming, hurting, injuring, wounding
oppressing, persecuting, wronging
ambushing, assailing, attacking
clobbering, fighting, ganging up (on), hitting, jumping, knocking
- we took over as soon as we realized that the fill-in had been mishandling the situation
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