maladministered

verb

past tense of maladminister
as in damaged
to manage badly because the organization maladministered the relief effort, thousands of refugees went hungry needlessly

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  1. damaged
  2. violated
  3. abused
  4. misruled
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  • More than 1,300 homes were damaged when the quake struck East Nusa Tenggara province on Saturday, with nearly 250 were destroyed on Flores alone.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Corn is reportedly the crop most commonly damaged by feral swine.
    — Chris Boyer, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of damaged
Verb
  • The office of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hezbollah violated the ceasefire by attacking Israeli soldiers inside Lebanon, seriously wounding three.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • McHale found that Washington is likely to succeed in proving its claims that Kalshi violated state laws on gambling and consumer protection.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of violated
Verb
  • Because of Alden’s quick thinking, Danny now has evidence of all the women abused by Hal and the Eastons over the years.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026
  • In one, Henderson represents a group of families who allege a special education teacher physically abused students.
    — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of abused
Verb
  • The result is a society that feels both rule-bound and misruled, saturated with laws and yet strangely lawless.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Definition of misruled
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