MISMANAGING Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

as in mismanagement

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verb

present participle of mismanage

as in damaging

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

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Noun

Now the Board has voted to shut down yet again to hide the terrible mismanagement under its current leadership.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
The property owner for West Suburban has sued Prasad for financial mismanagement.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of mismanagement

Verb

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

Definition of damaging

Noun

The bill was ushered through the state General Assembly after the discovery of extensive mishandling of bodies at a Carlinville funeral home, where at least 80 families were given the wrong remains.

— Casey Toner, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
Welch has described his mishandling of this matter as a systemic failure.

— David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of mishandling

Verb

George, despite missing significant time because of a 25-game suspension for violating NBA drug policy, had a good season on both ends.

— Tony Jones, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
In May, two children were taken by their mother, violating a court order, and were reported missing in Hillsborough County.

— Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of violating

Noun

In 2026, how reasonable are fears that AI, either by escaping human control or through misuse by unscrupulous people, could cause a cataclysmic event or the downfall of civilization?

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
An internal investigation into misuse in Mooresville released in August found several policy violations.

— Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of misuse

Verb

A day after the website went live on July 22, Gupta says people called him from unknown numbers, verbally abusing him and threatening him with violence.

— Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026
The backlash intensified after reports of immigration authorities accessing Flock data, officers abusing the network to stalk women, and misreads that led to innocent people held at gunpoint.

— Christopher Cann, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026

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