Definitions

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  • noun One who manages ill.

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  • noun One who mismanages.

Etymologies

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mismanage +‎ -er

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Examples

  • It goes to FEMA, the mismanager of the recovery of New Orleans.

    Contempt 2007

  • Your husband's been called a liar, a failure, a mismanager.

    CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2003 2003

  • Your husband's been called a liar, a failure, a mismanager.

    CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2003 2003

  • But it also got us thinking that another danger lurks in the shadows of all our workdays - the office mismanager.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • But it also got us thinking that another danger lurks in the shadows of all our workdays - the office mismanager.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Authority remained as rotten as ever, even if Washington at least rid the CHA of the grand master mismanager, Charles Swibel.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • One name associated with the Edsel fiasco would surface again as the mismanager of the Department of Defense.

    Common Sense Political Thought 2009

  • 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

    ArmchairGM Popular Stuff 2008

  • You know what's really the motivation behind that McCain ad spotlighting Obama's ties to Fannie Mae mismanager Franklin Raines, don't you?

    FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog 2008

  • 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.

    FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog 2008

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