Definitions for mismanage

mismanage mis·man·age

Spelling: [mis-man-ij]
IPA: /mɪsˈmæn ɪdʒ/

Mismanage is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 377 anagrams from letters in mismanage (aaegimmns).

Definitions for mismanage

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to manage incompetently or dishonestly:

Origin of mismanage

First recorded in 1680-90; mis-1 + manage

Examples for mismanage

And I am not going to stand by silently while you mismanage these sacred funds the way you have chosen to do in recent months.

I can't conceive how he contrived to mismanage his affairs.'

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

And yet how sadly we mismanage men, and misuse opportunities.

They are so simple in construction, that servants cannot mismanage them.

I can't afford to send some bungler who'd mismanage and let the sand-hills devour a half a dozen of my best legions.

If the Assistant Commissioner wanted to mismanage this affair nothing, of course, could prevent him.

His chief defect was his forgetfulness and absence of mind, which made him mismanage important business.

You never would have had any property to mismanage if it hadn't been for her; and see the way you show your gratitude for it.

Take it, and you provide Jamie and yourself with a home, he has his freedom, and you can manage or mismanage him as you list.

Word Value for mismanage
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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