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Mishandle   /mɪshˈændəl/   Listen
Mishandle

verb
1.
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.  Synonyms: 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.  "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
2.
Manage badly or incompetently.  Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage.






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"Mishandle" Quotes from Famous Books



... forth and weepeth. No man ever wept like that and went not forth, but some go forth who have not wept. And they go forth to certain failure. They mishandle life, and with good intent do harm. But that is not the worst thing to be said about these toilers without tears. It is not that they touch life so unskilfully, but they touch so little of it. It is ...
— The Threshold Grace • Percy C. Ainsworth



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