misrule
Example Sentences
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His party's years in power, however, became associated with misrule and corruption.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025
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
"I ask for time, valuable time to rescue the country from corruption and misrule."
From Reuters • Dec. 8, 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
In a word, it would be opening Pandora's box, and letting escape the imps of social and political discord, and finally result in universal misrule, if not in positive anarchy.
From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey
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