His son John had been as far back as the preceding July marked down for service with the first Indian contingent which would in case of war be dispatched across the Indian Ocean to take part in the mismanaged attack on Tanga.
I bought the farm that father so ridiculously mismanaged and that you made so prosperous.
We women," she went on vigorously, "have mismanaged every separate work that was ever put into our hands!
The King himself led the host across the Border, and encamped on the Till, but, as he would not take the advice of Angus and others who knew more of border fighting than he did, he mismanaged the whole affair.
But he mismanaged matters, and, instead of bringing the enemy to a battle, he let the Highland army, which was gathering like a snowball on its way, pass him.
I know, however, that your forefathersmismanaged the country for about a century and a half, after which it finally came into possession of the British in 1806.
Without an exclusive privilege, they have commonly mismanaged the trade.
With an exclusive privilege, they have both mismanagedand confined it.
I havemismanaged things, I think; and it is good for me to find that out.
The thing would have been mismanaged anywhere else; but now I have not only an unblemished character, but I am like gold tried in the furnace.
Large areas of swampland are found in nearly all parts, recoverable for farm or forest use, and mismanaged and devastated forest areas are found all over the country.
He was then offered fifteen hundred pounds a year for two years, and this he accepted rather than see his plan mismanaged by persons who did not believe in it.
They thought they knew more than the old man; they mismanaged the business terribly, and involved him in their own ruin.
Vain and capricious, passionate and self-indulgent, she mismanaged her son from his infancy, now provoking him by her foolish fondness, and now exciting his contempt by her paroxysms of impotent rage.
At length the general voice seemed to declare that Clive alone could restore order in the mismanaged Presidency.
Thus ended this mismanaged affair, which cost the English two hundred and seventy three killed, wounded, and taken.
I think not, sir--he rather mismanaged the affairs of the Hoboken Bank.
On indifferent topics she could converse with as much good sense as the rest of the world; but her own affairs she mismanaged terribly.
Anything so mismanaged as the prize property has been, or so wasted, I never saw; so much so, that I look upon the appointment of prize agents at all as a simple injustice to the army, i.
I am to remain here, and to tell the truth, the business is so mismanaged that I have ceased to care whether I go or stay.
In limbs that have remained stiff after severe and mismanaged sprain, the dashing of water, either cold or tepid, has been strongly recommended.
In mismanaged cases, I have found on dissection the lower end of the bone lying in the sacro-ischiatic notch, and a process advancing very different from reparation—necrosis.
Now I should not wonder if he even dared to make some such statement as this--that the Peace which we were making could not have been made an honourable one, or such as I demanded, because our generals had mismanaged the war.
The Olynthians again appealed to Athens; an alliance was made; Chares was sent with thirty ships and 2,000 mercenaries, but seems to have mismanaged the war by misfortune or by design.
The whole thing seems to have been grievously mismanaged on our part.
It seems the general opinion of their own friends that they have mismanaged their case, and plunged into a difficulty they might have avoided.
Each was mismanaged at the beginning, but as soon as the invading forces were organised in one command, success was achieved.
It was well understood at Rome that Cajetan, in pushing Luther one step beyond his original Thesis, by transferring the question from the discretion of Tetzel to the authority under which he acted, had mismanaged the affair.
Frederic underrated the value of the alliance, and mismanaged it badly.
He accounted for the existence of the million and a half of revolutionists in the United States by charging the capitalist class with having mismanaged society.
I charged the capitalist class with having mismanaged society.
Give me an intellectual answer to my intellectual charge that the capitalist class has mismanaged society.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mismanaged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
