MISMANAGED Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

mismanaged

verb

past tense of mismanage

as in damaged

to manage badly the business was mismanaged so seriously that it eventually had to declare bankruptcy

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The suicide attack on Friday brought down an outer wall of the police offices and badly damaged the mosque.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
Aid groups warn more than three-quarters of Gaza’s housing stock is damaged, thousands of buildings are at risk of collapse, and residents grow especially vulnerable when winter rains seep into weakened structures.

— Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

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The gathering of seven survivors includes one who was an adult when abused, a recognition of the new frontier of the abuse crisis facing the church.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026
Throughout the season, the show jumps back and forth from Lizzie’s story to the 1990s, where serial killer Aileen Wuornos (Sarah Paulson) is on the run after murdering a series of men who abused her.

— Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2026

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Mayor Mamdani’s aides violated city rules and state law in using the disappearing Signal app to send messages to internet influencers to help them to spread word of the mayor’s achievements.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026
The attorney general’s office will review the records to determine whether the group violated Missouri’s merchandising practices act, according to a news release.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026

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The Michigan Supreme Court has ordered the state Court of Appeals to take another look at the life sentence given to Ethan Crumbley, the Oxford High School shooter, including whether his trial attorneys mishandled a defense expert's testimony.

— Paula Wethington, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
Woods mishandled at least 1,045 criminal cases during her 29-year career as a DNA analyst at the CBI.

— Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2026

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