Associations to the word «Mishandle»

Wiktionary

MISHANDLE, verb. To handle badly, causing physical injury.
MISHANDLE, verb. To handle incorrectly, to make a mistake in handling a thing or situation.

Dictionary definition

MISHANDLE, verb. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement".
MISHANDLE, verb. Manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope