misrule
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His party's years in power, however, became associated with misrule and corruption.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025
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 top government positions, of precipitating the crisis through corruption and misrule.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
But Filipinos seemed ready to embrace their democratic rights and move on from Marcos’s misrule.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2022
Those years were scored, by the spirit of misrule, with deep, dark lines of infamy.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
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
It is also remarkable that Miss Suu Kyi should sit down and scribble on banknotes with a man who misruled her country for so long.
From Economist ● Dec. 10, 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
The minor officials misruled and peculated, as we have related in our introductory sketch of the viceroyal government.
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