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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "mishandle" in a sentence

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    1. He wasn’t sure he trusted the system, or any system, not to mishandle it


    1. "Where is Alan?" he meant to soften it a little but mishandled the controls and only changed his accent a little


    2. minds so mishandled, perverted and weak, that the state of


    3. He failed in his mishandled effort to win Kent back and he failed in securing professional help for Robert whose deteriorating condition was worsening by the hour


    4. While Roger may have mishandled the situation when the family crisis began with Josie’s revelation of her “homosexuality of convenience” into which he maintains she was shamefully recruited, his patient, though at times painful, dealings with the children are finally paying off


    5. For example, recognizing that sex-for-sale was a part of port activities which could give him serious difficulties if he mishandled it, he quickly formed a team of business owners, workers, medical and law enforcement personnel whose responsibility was to ensure the workers and patrons were treated well and keep the enterprise adults only


    6. It’s that basic issue that’s been severly mishandled


    7. but whether it was because of her conversation, or the fact that Garcia may have mishandled this ship’s standard operating procedure, was anyone’s guess


    8. However, as he had told the Chief Secretary the matter had been mishandled for far too long


    9. He had mishandled the negotiations


    10. details whether the editor mishandled Mayank and what impact his res ignation could have on the

    11. If you mishandled them, you could actually die without treatment


    12. “How can you say I mishandled it?” he protested


    13. Again I heard from her own lips things that made my blood boil, and again I cursed this brute who mishandled the woman that I loved


    14. lade them as you will; but they are wayward if mishandled


    15. For instance, in most places in the United States, a landlord is required to place a tenant’s security deposit in a separate bank account to ensure the money is not mishandled and can be spent only in appropriate ways


    16. Again I heard from her own lips things that made my blood boil, and again I cursed this brute who mishandled the woman I loved


    17. Everybody, therefore, authorities and convicts alike, was in fear of what might happen; we of the nobles were thus quite down to the level of the other convicts; the only point we were favoured in was in regard to corporal punishment—but I think that we should have had even that inflicted on us had we done anything for which it was prescribed, for equality as to punishment was strictly enjoined or practised; what I mean is, that we were not wantonly, causelessly, mishandled like the other prisoners


    1. Prosecuting Attorney Lawrence Fitzgerald in regard to mishandling this convoluted and sorry affair? Was Scooter Libby a sacrificial lamb offered up as a token to the attack dogs on the Left? Was this justice?


    2. The mishandling and violence continued, and Jereriah, still standing in the corner that he was forced to stand in, watched; and at times, as one would get tired from his protest, another would step up to persist in the rhetoric of their misguided ways


    3. siphoning of funds and mishandling of financial facilities should the


    4. The person responsible for the mistake accuses the lowest man in the chain of command of making the mistake; thus causing the confusion in the driver’s nervous system and his mishandling of the clutch and gears, causing them to jam, stopping the car in front of Schiller’s Deli just as Gabriel Princep comes outside with a sandwich in his hand


    5. Numerous citations for mishandling situations on the street where blacks were involved


    6. Forgive the company for mishandling a bad quarter


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    Synonyms for "mishandle"

    misconduct mishandle mismanage ball up blow bobble bodge bollix bollix up bollocks bollocks up botch botch up bumble bungle flub fluff foul up fuck up fumble louse up mess up muck up muff screw up spoil misemploy misapply abuse harm mistreat man-handle

    "mishandle" definitions

    make a mess of, destroy or ruin


    manage badly or incompetently