Definition
misawarded
adjective
- incorrectly or improperly given or granted (as a prize, contract, or decision)
verb
- past tense and past participle of misaward; to award or grant incorrectly or to the wrong recipient
Examples
- The contract was misawarded to a company that did not meet the qualifications.
- The scholarship was misawarded due to an error in the application review process.
- The judge ruled that the damages had been misawarded in the original trial.
- Several prizes were misawarded at the competition because of miscounted votes.
- The committee discovered that funds had been misawarded to ineligible organizations.