miscontrolling

Updated: May 14, 2025

He was nominally, not only the heir to, but actually the possessor of, a large property; but he could not touch the principal, and of the income only so much as certain legal curmudgeons would allow him. As Greystock had said, everybody was at law with him, so successful had been his father in mismanaging, and miscontrolling, and misappropriating the property.

Anthony Trollope - The Eustace Diamonds