What is "mismanage"

Usage examples of "mismanage".

While some segregationists admired his attempts to resist the federals during the Ole Miss crisis, many ordinary Mississippians viewed the episode as a disaster and a tragedy, and blamed Barnett for mismanaging the crisis.

Mary loved Magdalen in a way, yet she never spared her the discussion of that long-ago attachment of her youth, violently mismanaged by Colonel Bellairs.

The son who had so badly mismanaged Aire Communications he had brought it to its present weakened and crippled state.

M: To me, this is just simply another example of mismanaged youth and certainly what I have reported to you above is another example.

However, Iraqi society could not subsist on these assets forever, and its economy had been badly mismanaged over the previous thirty years.

Anyway, Bo has threatened to go public and blame our hospital for mismanaging cases he transfers over here.

And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams to misjudge their players, and mismanage their games.

And he goes on to add, in a passage full of the peculiar melancholy beauty of his prose, and full too of instruction for the biographer, "But if, in after-time, I have sought a refuge from bodily pain and mismanaged sensibility in abstruse researches, which exercised the strength and subtlety of the understanding without awakening the feelings of the heart, there was a long and blessed interval, during which my natural faculties were allowed to expand and my original tendencies to develop themselves – my fancy, and the love of nature, and the sense of beauty in forms and sounds.

The proceedings of the commissaries were unfortunate, not that they failed to occupy many places, but from the complaints made against them of mismanaging the operations of the war.

I understood by him, and by others of him, that he had a wife, but that the lady was distempered in her head, and was under the conduct of her own relations, which he consented to, to avoid any reflections that might (as was not unusual in such cases) be cast on him for mismanaging her cure.

For many years, there had been grumbling that the Intendants who ruled the numerous systems in the former Terran Empire were mismanaging trade matters for their own gain.

A guy like you mismanages the money, or sees a chance for a big break or overextends himself at the wrong time and can't get financing.

It would certainly be impossible to prop up every bank that was mismanaged.

Behind the short-sighted governments that divide and mismanage human affairs, a real force for world unity and world order exists and grows.