All mismanagement synonyms

noun mismanagement

• flaw — Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
• omission — the act of omitting.
• miscue — a stroke in which the cue fails to make solid contact with the cue ball.
• glitch — a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
• fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
• lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
• misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
• miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
• blunder — A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• misdeed — an immoral or wicked deed.
• wrongdoing — behavior or action that is wrong, evil, or blameworthy.
• offense — a violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin.
• inaccuracy — something inaccurate; error.
• misstep — a wrong step.
• transgression — an act of transgressing; violation of a law, command, etc.; sin.
• sin — the 12th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
• misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
• negligence — the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities.
• violation — the act of violating.
• carelessness — not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
• dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
• malfeasance — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
• impropriety — the quality or condition of being improper; incorrectness.
• immorality — immoral quality, character, or conduct; wickedness; evilness.
• misdemeanor — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
• malpractice — Law. failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows.
• mischief — conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• falsity — the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• trespass — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
• slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
• boner — a blunder
• miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
• stumble — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
• absurdity — the quality or state of being absurd; nonsense
• misapprehension — misunderstanding.
• oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
• deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.
• goof — to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.
• slight — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
• solecism — a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage, as unflammable and they was.
• untruth — the state or character of being untrue.
• fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
• misconception — an erroneous conception; mistaken notion.
• delinquency — Delinquency is criminal behaviour, especially that of young people.
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• screamer — a person or thing that screams.
• howler — a person, animal, or thing that howls.