misprosecute

present singular third person misprosecutes · participle present misprosecuting · participle past misprosecuted · past misprosecuted

1. To prosecute badly or ineptly.

   Child-abuse scandals are prosecuted and misprosecuted with almost Salem-witch-trial fervor.

   2004, David Brooks, On Paradise Drive, page 137

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   […] there is a resonable basis to question that Cannada has deliberately and fraudulently misinvestigated or misprosecuted allegations with the aim of shielding a suspected war criminal;

   2000, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons Debates - Issues 75-84, page 5805

   Bucky the Beater, who'd made a career out of misprosecuting gangsters, finally hitting one because the jerk confessed—at least he hadn't fucked that one up.

   2011, Richard Barre, Bearing Secrets