Definition of Mishandling

1. Verb. (third-person singular of mishandle) ¹

2. Noun. Incorrect handling; mismanagement. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mishandling

1. mishandle [v] - See also: mishandle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mishandling

misguided
misguidedly
misguidedness
misguidednesses
misguider
misguiders
misguides
misguiding
misguidingly
mish
mishandle
mishandled
mishandler
mishandlers
mishandles
mishandling
mishandlings
mishanter
mishanters
mishap
mishapped
mishappen
mishappy
mishaps
mishapt
mishcup
mishear
misheard
mishearing
mishears

Literary usage of Mishandling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Disputed Handwriting: An Exhaustive, Valuable, and Comprehensive Work Upon by Jerome Buell Lavay, Berkeley (Calif.). Police Dept (1909)
"... in Handling or Mishandling a Pen — Signatures Most Difficult to Read — Simulation of Signature by Expert Penman—Hard to Imitate an Untrained Hand—A ..."

2. Women Business Owners: Selling to the Federal Government (1993)
"... it is determined by the government that the late receipt was due solely to mishandling by the government after receipt at the government installation. ..."

3. Trends, Risk, & Interventions in Lethal Violence: Proceedings of the Third edited by Carolyn Block (1995)
"To deter gun owners from negligently storing firearms, the Governor has proposed legislation to create the new offenses of criminal mishandling of a weapon ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of by Montana Supreme Court (1911)
"If all this were true, it still misses the point, which is, that through the negligent mishandling of the engine, cable, and cage by the engineer, ..."

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