How to Use mismanage in a Sentence

mismanage

verb

• Fans still call for his ouster every time the Ravens blow a lead or mismanage the game clock, but that’s part of the gig.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
• There’s a handful of banks that were mismanaged, but largely, banks are in very strong health.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 22 June 2023
• Rinn concurs with Allen that the district has been mismanaged for years.
  — East Bay Times Editorial, The Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2024
• Restrepo says that the three species of bluefin tuna have all been horribly mismanaged in the past.
  — Jean Trinh, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• Biden said Trump blew up the national debt and mismanaged the pandemic.
  — The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
• The money was found bilked from the government’s coffers and mismanaged.
  — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 6 Apr. 2023
• He has been blamed for mismanaging the bullpen, mucking up the lineup and failing to put this team in a position to succeed.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• He has been blamed for mismanaging the bullpen, mucking up the lineup, and failing to put this team in a position to succeed.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• Advocates for those detained say the jail is mismanaged and needs to be discarded.
  — Ben Brasch, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
• Catherine Engelbrecht, the founder of True the Vote, has argued for more than a decade that mismanaged voter rolls have led to widespread voter fraud.
  — David Gilbert, WIRED, 31 July 2024
• Democrats responded by saying Youngkin had mismanaged the proposal from the start.
  — Stephen Whyno, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
• As much as 22% of all plastic waste is mismanaged and ends up as litter, with large amounts eventually making it into the oceans.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 17 Apr. 2023
• But in 2013, they were accused of fraud and sued by a former investor for mismanaging company funds.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 2 July 2024
• In 2020, the partners accused Snyder of mismanaging the team’s finances.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• There should be an awareness that there is a risk of mismanaging human capital.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• On the other, this stop on the star’s Hot Girl Summer tour was woefully mismanaged at times and felt increasingly repetitive as the night wore on.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
• Iran and Russia are also mismanaging the Caspian Sea, which has been steadily sinking and reached a critical low in 2022.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 30 Jan. 2024
• Only days ago the pair called out Mr. Netanyahu for mismanaging the war and not providing a political endgame.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
• If the provider is being mismanaged, the court could also appoint a trustee to operate it while in bankruptcy, officials said.
  — Dave Altimari, Hartford Courant, 6 Mar. 2024
• The exchange only increased my feeling that the whole thing was mismanaged and unjustified.
  — Karla L. Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Abdul also mismanaged her time onstage, turning to video elements that chomped up too much of the already slim 30-minute set, and said some really bizarre stuff to fans.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 4 July 2024
• There’s no doubt that some female and minority leaders are held back and/or mismanaged.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• Four years ago, amid a pandemic, a recession and the discord that followed George Floyd’s murder by police, many voters blamed Trump — if not for causing the crises, at least for mismanaging them.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024
• Trump will almost surely blame Biden for allowing a surge of migrants at the southern border, claim he's caused inflation and mismanaged foreign conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza .
  — Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 24 June 2024
• Coleman filed for bankruptcy in 1999 and eventually took his mother to court over claims that his estate was being mismanaged.
  — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2024
• Until there is peace and a stable government that does not squander the country’s resources and grossly mismanage the economy, there is no incentive for people to stay.
  — John Prendergast, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2017
• An investigation by the Haitian senate found that 1.7 billion U.S. dollars disbursed over eight years had been grossly mismanaged or stolen.
  — Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2023
• From the use of excessive force and poorly vetted officers to red tape and mismanaged funds, law enforcement organizations across the globe have their fair share of problems.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Jan. 2024
• O’Keefe was forced out of the nonprofit in February under a cloud of allegations of workplace misconduct and mismanaged funds.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2023
• The accountant mismanaged the Oscar winner’s funds, bringing Pacino’s savings from a staggering $50 million to zero dollars.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024