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Mishandle meaning
To manipulate something roughly, causing physical damage. | To deal with a situation incorrectly or ineffectively; to make a mistake in handling a situation.
Example sentences (10)
Or is it now the policy of the U.S. government that an FBI director can lie with impunity, leak and mishandle sensitive classified information?
What came out of that was the Select Agents and Toxins Act, which basically made it a federal crime to mishandle a list of pathogens that are considered to be exceptionally dangerous or candidates for development into bio weapons.
They are not trying to damage wheelchairs, but we do need them to be more motivated to damage or mishandle fewer wheelchairs used by our community,” he said.
But there are also signs that the government, especially at the regional level in Hubei Province, the source of the outbreak, was slow to recognize the danger and is continuing to mishandle the crisis.
It'll be interesting to see if a player can somehow mishandle a conversation and end up with an undesirable ending.
Hypothetical story beats such as those prove that John Connor didn’t have to die in Terminator: Dark Fate, which only makes the decision to include and mishandle such a scenario even more nonsensical in comparison.
The ignorance and stupidity of these people who mishandle the stingrays really irks me.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — A federal agency has completed its investigation into four Title IX sexual violence complaints against Indiana University and determined that the school didn’t mishandle them.
So this fall, she got a law passed requiring airlines to report to the Department of Transportation how many wheelchairs or motorized scooters they lose, mishandle or break.
However, it is possible for the controlling team to mishandle the puck into their own net.