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misgovern

[mis-guhv-ern] / mɪsˈgʌv ərn /


VERB
mismanage
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Rather than occupy hostile territories, powerful countries prefer to exert influence from across the border while letting the foreign population misgovern itself.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2014

For, to misgovern well, one must open his purse as often as he forces the purses of others.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

The colony was now entirely free to manage its own affairs, well or ill, to misgovern itself if it chose to do so.

From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by Archibald MacMechan

National monarchy meant national wars and the right of national churches to misgovern themselves according to their several inclinations.

From Medieval Europe by H. W. C. (Henry William Carless) Davis

For the sake of dishonorable peace they leave these native states to misgovern themselves and stink to high heaven!

From Rung Ho! by Talbot Mundy


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