mismanagement

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mis=man=age=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

mismanagement, n. 

 Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

mismanagement

abuse, abuse of office, bad policy, befoulment, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, defalcation, defilement, desecration, diversion, embezzlement, fouling, impolicy, inexpedience, inexpediency, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misadministration, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misdirection, misemployment, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, misrule, misusage, misuse, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, omission, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, prostitution, violation, wrongdoing

ROGET THESAURUS

mismanagement

Unskillfulness

N unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, shiftless, unstatesmanlike, unadvised, ill-advised, misadvised, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted, unguided, misguided, misconducted, foolish, wild, infelicitous, penny wise and pound foolish, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.