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▪ I. † misˈmanage, n. Obs. rare—1.
[mis-1 4.]
Bad management; improper administration.
a1716Beverley Virginia (1722) I. §20 That this Disappointment..proceeded from a Mismanage of Government.
▪ II. misˈmanage, v.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. and intr. To manage badly or wrongly. Also misˈmanaged ppl. a., misˈmanaging vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. xvii. §4 The Business of Assemblies would be in danger to be mismanag'd. 1698Collier Immor. Stage (1699) 138 The Clergy mismanage sometimes, and they must be told of their faults. 1699― Def. Short View 68 As for his Mismanaging, he must account to his Master. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. ix. 294 The good of the community..so formidably threatened in their mismanaging hands. 1838Lytton Alice 89 A mismanaged estate. 1885Manch. Exam. 21 Feb. 5/3 In some respects our foreign policy has been mismanaged.
Hence misˈmanageable a.
1883Ruskin Fors Clav. xc. 162 A kind of girl..who is more or less spoilable and mis-manageable. |