Misadminister
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To administer wrongly or badly.
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From mis- + administer.
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