mismanage

Example Sentences

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Deirdre said the reason people are going to food banks is "not because we mismanage money. It's not because we can't budget. It's because there isn't enough to budget."

From BBC • May 24, 2025

“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

Would Durgan fail at the pinch and mismanage it so as to give the alarm?

From The Grafters by Lynde, Francis