Definitions
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- noun One who manages ill.
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- noun One who
mismanages .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It goes to FEMA, the mismanager of the recovery of New Orleans.
Contempt 2007
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Your husband's been called a liar, a failure, a mismanager.
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Your husband's been called a liar, a failure, a mismanager.
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But it also got us thinking that another danger lurks in the shadows of all our workdays - the office mismanager.
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But it also got us thinking that another danger lurks in the shadows of all our workdays - the office mismanager.
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Authority remained as rotten as ever, even if Washington at least rid the CHA of the grand master mismanager, Charles Swibel.
Chicago Reader 2010
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One name associated with the Edsel fiasco would surface again as the mismanager of the Department of Defense.
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Paul Holmgren is a bit of a cap mismanager (I believe this will be evidenced in a few years), but as of right now, he's attempting to put together a
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You know what's really the motivation behind that McCain ad spotlighting Obama's ties to Fannie Mae mismanager Franklin Raines, don't you?
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She says so based on the fact that McCain campaign isn't running an ad spotlighting Obama's ties to white guy / horrible Fannie Mae mismanager Jim Johnson, even though they, uh, are.
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