misnegotiate

Verb

misnegotiate (third-person singular simple present misnegotiates, present participle misnegotiating, simple past and past participle misnegotiated)

1. To make a mistake when trying to make one's way over (difficult terrain); to misstep or stumble when trying to avoid (obstacles).
   • If they missed seeing one, or if they misnegotiated their path around another, we would be bounced roughly into the air.2004, Will Johnson, The Sailfish and the Sacred Mountain, page 124
   • Back in 1913 for instance, a driver named Jack Tower misnegotiated the southwest, and overturned in the south chute after exiting the turn.2005, Terry Reed, Indy: The Race and Ritual of the Indianapolis 500
2. To cope with or handle badly.
   • Although the protagonists of his films often misnegotiate risk, putting themselves recklessly in the path of psychotic killers, Argento navigates the professionally dangerous waters of genre cinema with elegance and intelligence.2012, Elena M. Past, Methods of Murder
   • Aspects of the gross or gross-reflecting state itself become compromised, misnegotiated, misnavigated, and misdigested, hobbling the state in various ways.2017, Ken Wilber, The Religion of Tomorrow, page 414
3. To argue or represent one's position badly when coming to an agreement.
   • He feels straight fees can be so seriously misnegotiated that profitability does not necessarily follow.1980, Marketing & Media Decisions - Volume 15, Issues 1-6, page 120
   • And this misnegotiated agreement contained what in my view were greatly inflated claims by BookCrafters.1999, Sol Stein, Bankruptcy: A Feast for Lawyers, page 241