mishandle

How To Use mishandle In A Sentence

• During the convention, Democrats will be running a TV ad in 21 states charging the president has mishandled the economy.
• The manner in which he mishandled the Reid situation was indicative of his inadequacies.
• It is set on the trial day of the client whose case she allegedly mishandled. Times, Sunday Times
• His office said Iowa will take the lead in coordinating with about 40 other states investigating allegations of mishandled foreclosures. Obama won't sign bill that would affect foreclosure proceedings
• Instead there is advice on how bloggers should interact with their readers and a caution about how celebrities mishandle their public wrongdoings. Dale Carnegie's self-help bible gets a new life for the digital age
• He did mishandle his book of checks when he was trying to put it on the counter. It Must Be Noon Somewhere : Bev Vincent
• The defense argued that police mishandled blood drops from the crime scene, making the results of DNA testing unreliable.
• The operative theory right now, is that it was not espionage involved, rather some employee who perhaps mishandled the disks, and then felt like he was going to get in trouble, so he secretly put them back.
• This detector is a very delicate instrument; it'll go wrong if it's mishandled.
• Razorfish are a little like squid and can be rubbery when mishandled.