0 past simple and past participle of mishandle
1 to deal with something without the necessary care or skill:
The police were accused of mishandling the investigation.
Those workers who tried to escape and were caught were often mishandled.
No fuel, whether town gas, natural gas, electricity, paraffin or even coal, is safe if it is mishandled.
That is just one example of the way in which the whole matter has been botched and mishandled.
The food tax issue might be so mishandled as to produce great distress.
However, there is widespread and understandable dismay at the way in which that important national project has been mishandled.
Apparently, they take the view, on no information or little information being open to them, that the nation's affairs are being seriously mishandled.
The whole thing has been badly mishandled and ill-advised.
I regret to say that this claim has been mishandled.
