What is "mishandled"

Usage examples of "mishandled".

She stood like a white birch tree shaken and mishandled by the wind, and accepted it with the like indifference.

I gave orders to that wretch Davin and he lies slack in bed while one hawk is mishandled by a child, and the other, I doubt not, starved on its block.

She will never be mine again, and I cannot bear to see her mishandled by Darren.

And yet I do not wish to see so valiant a man mishandled, and so I will, for friendship's sake, ride after this Englishman and bring him back to you.

Hrrto had not requested her presence at that High Council meeting and he knew she was certain that he had mishandled that meeting.

She'd held it since she was barely eighteen and had never lost a cargo or mishandled one, inanimate or animate.

I'll have no officer of mine, not the meanest, mishandled more lightly than myself.

His charm for this lady, if mishandled, could very well prove fatal, and not in the figurative sense.