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Definition of Mishandles
1. mishandle [v] - See also: mishandle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mishandles
Literary usage of Mishandles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1907)
"CHAPTER VI IN WHICH LORD RODONO mishandles THE BAG AND MR. RANALD STROKES THE
CAT Lord Morfa had kept his room for some days, and the house his counsel— so ..."
2. A Short History of Freethought: Ancient and Modern by John Mackinnon Robertson (1899)
"... (1599) 's tne first regular drama on a Biblical subject, mishandles Mohammedanism
in his Battle of A ..."
3. Mysterious Japan by Julian Street (1921)
"mishandles its telephones and cables, does better with its railroads. They are
fairly well run. Trains are almost invariably on time, and the cars are not ..."
4. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914)
"2 In the description of these eleven Sermons (except in the case of tlu- 2d ed.
of the fifth, which he mishandles, the sixth, which he could not find, ..."
5. Critical and Exegetical Hand-book to the Gospel of John by Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (1884)
"This in answer to Weisse, who psychologically mishandles the entire representation
as a fiction derived from ver. ..."
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