0 to deal with something without the necessary care or skill:
The police were accused of mishandling the investigation.
1 to deal with something without the necessary care or skill:
The administration completely mishandled this incident.
That is an indication of the speed of the process, and shows the potential for mishandling it.
We all know that that is true, and it is that mishandling which makes us anxious.
Apparently, they take the view, on no information or little information being open to them, that the nation's affairs are being seriously mishandled.
However, there is widespread and understandable dismay at the way in which that important national project has been mishandled.
We have been accused of mishandling the situation.
Experience shows that locks on railway carriage doors are generally safe against accidental mishandling.
There were the problems of disability and the appalling mishandling of the issue of the trike, which led to thousands of people becoming housebound.
The food tax issue might be so mishandled as to produce great distress.
