Word.ws English Dictionary

maladministering

maladministering is the present participle and gerund 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 maladministering

What is maladministering the present participle and gerund of?
Maladministering is the present participle and gerund of maladminister.

Words near maladministering in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: maladministering (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “maladministering.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/maladministering. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.