misrule

Example Sentences

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They badly underestimated her massive star power, and they underestimated how much their decades of misrule had alienated most of the population.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026

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

Just ask Haitians in Miami who have long suffered under terror and misrule, or ask the Central Americans who fled civil wars.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2022

“The pattern of many leaders is to be exalted in life and forgotten after death,” the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said in a eulogy that seemed to speak to a world plagued by misrule.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2022

Ye have reversed the direction of your magnetic currents: ye are fallen into confusion, and have given place to the spirit of misrule.

From The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Maitland, Edward