misrule
Americannoun
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bad or unwise rule; misgovernment.
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disorder or lawlessness.
verb (used with object)
verb
noun
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inefficient or inhumane government
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disorder
Other Word Forms
- misruler noun
Etymology
Origin of misrule
1300–50; Middle English misreulen (v.), misreule (noun). See mis- 1, rule
Vocabulary lists containing misrule
Example Sentences
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As a new year starts, he and his supporters want this to be a turning point for the country, which is trying to recover from devastating economic crisis and years of misrule.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2024
Lawmaker Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, first deputy head of the parliamentary committee on anti-corruption policy, said the shakeup partly sought to demonstrate that Kyiv saw cracking down on misrule as a key element of its Western integration.
From Reuters • Jan. 25, 2023
They accuse him and his powerful family that included several siblings holding top government positions of plunging the country into the crisis through corruption and misrule.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2022
But Filipinos seemed ready to embrace their democratic rights and move on from Marcos’s misrule.
From Washington Post • May 9, 2022
By a singular coincidence, the chief Catholic Archbishops were at this time men of intelligence and humane aspirations, who did their best to remedy the scandalous misrule of their predecessors.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard
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