misadminister

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verb

To administer wrongly or badly.

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Meanings

verbmisadminister (third-person singular simple present misadministers, present participle misadministering, simple past and past participle misadministered)

present singular third person misadministers · participle present misadministering · participle past misadministered · past misadministered

  1. To administer wrongly or badly.

    If you do not know how to score an item, then the student will not know when certain criteria are reached and will misadminister the test.

    2001, Steven Walfish, Allen K. Hess, Succeeding in Graduate School: The Career Guide for Psychology Students, →ISBN
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    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

    While the earth we have mistakenly taken to be our kingdom to overuse and misadminister as we please begins to show the wear and tear of that, he has given us a brilliantly preserved wingdom.

    2001, Birds in Art: An International Exhibition, page 14

Origin

From mis- + administer.

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APA

misadminister. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misadminister

MLA

“misadminister.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misadminister. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misadminister,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misadminister.

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