misrule

His party's years in power, however, became associated with misrule and corruption.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025

"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

The byproduct of Haiti’s institutional and security pandemonium is the death rattle of an economy that was already supine following years of misrule compounded by the pandemic.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022

The last Emperor of the last Chinese dynasty—the Ming—was driven to commit suicide through the success of an insurrection of the people, caused by his misrule, A.D.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Lindley, Augustus F.

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

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

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

To Solon, now acknowledged to be the wisest and most famous of the Athenians, the tyrants who had long misruled Athens turned, when they found the people in rebellion against their authority.

From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles