mishandle

How To Use mishandle In A Sentence

• Despite their sometimes colorful labels, many garden chemicals are highly dangerous if mishandled and have no place in a garden with young children.
• With the pensions negotiations edging towards farce, ministers fear that if they continue to mishandle the issues, there is a greater risk that they will lose the PR battle and the public could end up supporting the teachers and civil servants if and when they go on strike. The Age of Strife: pay packets and pensions divide coalition Britain
• This detector is a very delicate instrument; it'll go wrong if it's mishandled.
• Last week, you were fairly critical of the Australian Sports Commission saying that they had mishandled the drug inquiry and they said you were ill-informed and had been in the loop since day one.
• It makes such a refreshing contrast to the way that major building projects are mishandled here. Times, Sunday Times
• But the IG report shows that Gonzales did more than "mishandle" his notes, which included operational details on what he himself, somewhat ironically, called -- after it had leaked -- "one of the most highly protected [programs] in the United States ... a very, very secretive, protected program," and correspondence between congressional Intelligence Committee leaders and CIA chief Gen. Michael Hayden. TPMMuckraker
• The prime minister admitted that the crisis had been mishandled.
• And there's always the danger that electronic evidence will be overlooked or mishandled, reducing its usefulness in a court case.
• The prime minister admitted that the crisis had been mishandled.
• Our company lost an important order because the directors mishandled the whole affair.