mismanage

Example Sentences

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Yann Leriche, chief executive of Eurotunnel's owner Getlink, said the change was something the business "cannot mismanage", with problems "not an option".

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2023

“We didn’t have any money to mismanage, because we didn’t have any money,” Spence said of the JFK8 campaign.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2022

I didn’t understand how people with enough money could so easily mismanage it or make monumentally bad financial decisions.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2022

As he approaches a likely third term in power that would start next year, it could be politically damaging if his government were to mismanage Evergrande.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2021

Well, you know how I am sure to mismanage: but you will hardly believe, even of me, that I never saw what was most worth seeing, the Hague Gallery! 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis