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misadministering

misadministering is the present participle and gerund 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 misadministering

What is misadministering the present participle and gerund of?
Misadministering is the present participle and gerund of misadminister.

Words near misadministering in the dictionary

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

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