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misadministered

misadministered is the simple past and past participle of misadminister.

Meaning of misadminister

Verb

misadminister (third-person singular simple present misadministers, present participle misadministering, simple past and past participle misadministered)

  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.1912, Edwin Markham, The Real America in Romance: An Authentic History of America from the Discovery to the Present Day

Questions about misadministered

What is misadministered the simple past and past participle of?
Misadministered is the simple past and past participle of misadminister.

Words near misadministered in the dictionary

  1. misadjusting
  2. misadjustment
  3. misadjustments
  4. misadjusts
  5. misadminister
  6. misadministered
  7. misadministering
  8. misadministers
  9. misadministration
  10. misadorn
  11. misadorned

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