mismanagedadj.
/ˌmɪsˈmanɪdʒd/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈmænɪdʒd/ Managed or handled badly or wrongly.
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1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 114 This rarely happens but in the mal-administration of neglected or mis-manag'd Government.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. ii. vii. 210 A mismanaged estate.
1876 W. H. Egle Illustr. Hist. Pennsylvania 424 A people suffering from the evils of a mismanaged and extravagant government.
1942 E. B. White Shepard's Life in One Man's Meat 193 Birth strikes one as the supreme example of bad planning—a thoroughly mismanaged and ill-advised functional process.
1971 Physics Bull. June 361/1 In almost every mismanaged company we have known, the better executives are kept poorly informed by the poorer ones.
1998 Indianapolis Star 24 May j12/2 Integrating your favourite finds into your life without making your home look like a mismanaged curiosity shop.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1692- take your change out of that
- take, accept, receive in gree
- take, catch the fancy of
- take, cry, call a truce
- take, cry, call truce
- take, give career
- take, give oneself career
- take, give some thing career
- take, have one's full swing
- take, have one's swing
- take, have, get, gain the wind of
- take, keep one's own line
- take, lay down, resign the fasces
- take, make, set count of
- take, make, set count of by
- take, make, set count of upon
- take, make, set no count of
- take, make, set no count of by
- take, make, set no count of upon
- take, nim shrift
- take-all
- take-all disease
- take-all fungus
- take-apart
- take-back