Word Meanings - MISMANAGEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.

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• THROUGHOUT
  In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• WRONG
  imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer.
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• FAILLE
  A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.
• WRONGDOING
  Evil or wicked behavior or action.
• WRONGFUL
  Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
• THROUGH
  thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
• WRONGHEAD
  A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
• FAIL
  1. Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail. "His highness' fail of issue." Shak. 2. Death; decease. Shak.
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• THROUGHLY
  Thoroughly. Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden.
• WRONG-TIMED
  Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
• MANAGEMENT
  1. The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. "The management of
• WRONGNESS
  The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault. The best great wrongnesses within themselves. Bp. Butler. The rightness or wrongness of this view. Latham.
• WRONGDOER
  One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor. Ayliffe. (more info) 1. One who injures another, or who does wrong.
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• WRONGHEADED
  Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay.
• WRONGER
  One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of the world." Tennyson.
• FAILANCE
  Fault; failure; omission. Bp. Fell.
• WHERETHROUGH
  Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.
• MISMANAGEMENT
  Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• JEOFAIL
  An oversight in pleading, or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight. Blackstone.
• DEFAILANCE
  Failure; miscarriage. Possibility of defailance in degree or continuance. Comber.
• AWRONG
  Wrongly. Ford.
• SELF-WRONG
  Wrong done by a person himself. Shak.
• UNFAILING
  Not failing; not liable to fail; inexhaustible; certain; sure. Dryden. -- Un*fail"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*fail"ing*ness, n.