mismanage
verb
mis·man·age
ˌmis-ˈma-nij 
mismanaged; mismanaging
: to manage (something) wrongly or poorly
mismanage a business
… started thinking that maybe employees are sometimes mismanaged because they let themselves be mismanaged. They don't fight back.—
A. J. Anderson
A. J. Anderson… even those professional Pollyannas who publicly find reason to praise the current municipal administration shake their heads in private and wonder how long we can go on deliberately mismanaging our affairs.—Brendan Gill
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Examples of mismanage in a Sentence
the business was mismanaged so seriously that it eventually had to declare bankruptcy
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Without the watchdog calling out the DOT, agency officials would likely still be mismanaging its equipment, not following through on cybersecurity monitoring and not retaining proper documents for contracts.
—David Williams, Baltimore Sun, 29 Jan. 2025
Without proper tools, companies risk mismanaging or losing valuable insights embedded within this data.
—Mandar Khoje, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Bass, meanwhile, has been lambasted by celebrities and politicians accusing her of mismanaging city resources, and for being out of the country when the fires broke out.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2025
There was an empty reservoir in Los Angeles County, overgrown state forests, under-resourced fire departments, mismanaged water and political dysfunction — a steady stream of evidence that the state and the county had failed to guard against a wildfire with the same rigor as the Vogts had.
—Eli Saslow, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
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David Williams, Baltimore Sun, 29 Jan. 2025
Without proper tools, companies risk mismanaging or losing valuable insights embedded within this data.
—Mandar Khoje, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Bass, meanwhile, has been lambasted by celebrities and politicians accusing her of mismanaging city resources, and for being out of the country when the fires broke out.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2025
There was an empty reservoir in Los Angeles County, overgrown state forests, under-resourced fire departments, mismanaged water and political dysfunction — a steady stream of evidence that the state and the county had failed to guard against a wildfire with the same rigor as the Vogts had.
—Eli Saslow, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
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“Mismanage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mismanage. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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