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mismanage

verb as in bungle

verb as in manage badly

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Nearly half, or 46 percent, ends up in landfills, while 17 percent is incinerated and 22 percent is mismanaged and becomes litter.

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The firm argued Comerica had mismanaged itself and would be better off as part of a bigger bank, with similar concerns shared by other top shareholders.

Jones regressed and got benched—raising concerns that Belichick had mismanaged the young passer’s development.

He was fastest in the first session and said he felt Ferrari had mismanaged the rest of qualifying.

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“The easiest thing would have been for Robert to plow on until he truly pegged out and by which time the estate probably would have been run into the ground or mismanaged,” Bonneville says.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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