misworkingn.
/ˌmɪsˈwəːkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈwərkɪŋ/ Usually in plural. A wrong or improper action or operation; spec. the unsuccessful or inappropriate workings of a group, organization, system, etc.
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1832 T. Carlyle Goethe's Wks. in Foreign & Rev. 10 30 The whole wild world of European Thought; its old workings and misworkings, its best recent tendencies and efforts.
1991 N.Y. Times 31 May c25/1 If the author doesn't quite decipher the misworkings of Congress, at least he goes a long way toward figuring out why the country's two-party system so often produces a mess.
1994 San Francisco Business Times (Nexis) 30 Dec. a2 Gilleran..had ample opportunity as a regulator to see the workings and misworkings of banks.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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