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
Brendan GillExamples of mismanage in a Sentence
the business was mismanaged so seriously that it eventually had to declare bankruptcy
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But the regime has also mismanaged the economy for decades and worsened its wartime crisis with policies like an internet blackout that put more people out of work.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 15 June 2026
At Radio City Music Hall, James Dolan was booed at the watch party, then apologized for mismanaging the Knicks for two decades and heard cheers come back at him.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 14 June 2026
So this also is a big, fat L for the Bears, which overplayed its hand and mismanaged the entire process, squandering all kinds of good will in the process.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026
Some were mismanaged for years and allowed to drift.
—Louis Mosca, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 15 June 2026
At Radio City Music Hall, James Dolan was booed at the watch party, then apologized for mismanaging the Knicks for two decades and heard cheers come back at him.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 14 June 2026
So this also is a big, fat L for the Bears, which overplayed its hand and mismanaged the entire process, squandering all kinds of good will in the process.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026
Some were mismanaged for years and allowed to drift.
—Louis Mosca, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
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“Mismanage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mismanage. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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