2. Noun. Incorrect handling; mismanagement. ¹
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Definition of Mishandling
1. mishandle [v] - See also: mishandle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mishandling
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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