misgovernment
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Since January last year, Andrew Fahie has been the subject of an inquiry into allegations of misgovernment and corruption.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2022
But then they get reinforced as historians in the early twentieth century begin to write what is, I think, very misguided history of Reconstruction as a period of corruption and misgovernment.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
I mean news of chaos and misgovernment in other countries.
From Time ● Jul. 11, 2013
Burke added: “They auger misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.”
From New York Times ● May 30, 2010
And her misgovernment had been immeasurably worse than that of England.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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