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
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Etymology
Origin of misrule
1300–50; Middle English misreulen (v.), misreule (noun). See mis- 1, rule
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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
Nigeria's election next week marks nearly a quarter century of democracy in Africa's most populous nation, which in previous decades had become a byword for coups and military misrule.
From Reuters ● Feb. 17, 2023
They accuse him and his powerful family, which includes several siblings who until recently held Cabinet positions, of precipitating the crisis through corruption and misrule.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
But Filipinos seemed ready to embrace their democratic rights and move on from Marcos’s misrule.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2022
Most of the serious and exciting annoyances which afterwards festered and broke out in the Mexican revolution, owe their origin to this epoch of Spanish misrule.
They also want an overhaul of a system of governance, saying successive administrations since independence from Britain in 1948 have misruled the country leading to economic and social crises.
From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022
Mr Kabila has misruled Congo for the past 17 years, after he took over from his father, who was shot by a bodyguard.
From Economist ● Jun. 1, 2017
Far from being at the heart of a new Asia, sullen and misruled Central Asia languishes, for now, on the periphery.
From Economist ● Aug. 20, 2015
There will be no dramatic moment of closure on the era of Muhammad Hosni al-Sayyid Mubarak, the man who ruled and misruled Egypt for 30 years before being overthrown in early 2011.
From Newsweek ● Jun. 25, 2012
Jerusalem has been captured from the Turks; all Palestine has passed into the hands of the Allies; never again can Turkey have dominion over the land she has so horribly misruled.
From Studies in Prophecy by Arno C. Gaebelein
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