misadminister
English edit
Etymology edit
mis- + administer
Verb edit
misadminister (third-person singular simple present misadministers, present participle misadministering, simple past and past participle misadministered)
- To administer wrongly or badly.
- 1912, Edwin Markham, The Real America in Romance: An Authentic History of America from the Discovery to the Present Day:
- Congress, investing Washington with the same extraordinary powers they had given him after the affair at Trenton, quietly slipped away to York, where they continued to misadminister their affairs.
- 2001, Steven Walfish, Allen K. Hess, Succeeding in Graduate School: The Career Guide for Psychology Students, →ISBN:
- If you do not know how to score an item, then the student will not know when certain criteria are reached and will misadminister the test.
- 2001, Birds in Art: An International Exhibition, page 14:
- While the earth we have mistakenly taken to be our kingdom to overuse and misadminister as we please begins to show the wear and tear of that, he has given us a brilliantly preserved wingdom.