a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Lincs. 154 Miscarriages in his Government, (many by mismanaging, more by the missucceeding of matters).

1699 J. Collier Def. Short View Eng. Stage 68 As for his Mismanaging, he must account to his Master.

1953 Philos. Rev. 62 173 Where we can speak of managing, handling and employing we can speak of mismanaging, mishandling and misemploying.

1981 Polit. Sci. Q. 96 131 It is with considerable anticipation that one approaches the chapter on ‘Conflict Management’ to discover how all this managing and mismanaging actually takes place.

2000 Observer 29 Oct. (Business section) 11/5 The failure to value people..may be a factor in the mispricing and subsequent mismanaging of many large-scale takeovers.

1789 T. Twining Let. 14 Apr. (1991) I. 309 Thanks for all the trouble you have taken..in the management of my mismanaging manager.

1802 J. H. Nichols Essex Junto iv. i. 64 To repair the injuries it has suffer'd Under your mismanaging misconduct.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. ix. 294 The good of the community..so formidably threatened in their mismanaging hands.

1883 Cent. Mag. Jan. 393/2 The colonists..found in him only a faltering and mismanaging leader into disasters, whose record continued from this time to be an unbroken series of pathetic failures.

1922 Amer. Econ. Rev. 12 116 While goods were in the government's mismanaging hands, loss and deterioration ensued.