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maladministered

maladministered is the simple past and past participle of maladminister.

Meaning of maladminister

Verb

maladminister (third-person singular simple present maladministers, present participle maladministering, simple past and past participle maladministered)

  1. To administer wrongly or badly.
    • to maladminister an estate

Questions about maladministered

What is maladministered the simple past and past participle of?
Maladministered is the simple past and past participle of maladminister.

Words near maladministered in the dictionary

  1. maladjustive
  2. maladjustment
  3. maladjustments
  4. maladjusts
  5. maladminister
  6. maladministered
  7. maladministering
  8. maladministers
  9. maladministration
  10. maladministrations
  11. maladministrator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maladministered (page history and authors); maladminister (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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