mismanned

comparative more mismanned · superlative most mismanned

1. Having inappropriate personnel; improperly manned.

   Death steers the mismanned boat!

   1912, The Independent - Volume 72, page 944

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   Yes and no, but . . . say the shell-shocked educators whose overstocked, mismanned schools are spewing out more graduates, ready or not, than ever before.

   1975, The American Editor - Issues 586-628, page 18

   Do you mean to say that by ordering this poor mismanned barky to sea the Admiralty deliberately put her reputation at risk?

   2000, Wilder Perkins, Hoare and the Headless Captains, page 117

   This research was initiated to explore the assumption within the personnel community that disconnects, or misalignments, among these three systems are responsible for organizations being mismanned or undermanned.

   2007, Harry Thie, Roland J. Yardley, Margaret C. Harrell, Alignment of Department of Defense Manpower, Resources, and Personnel Systems, page xi