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
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
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
They accuse him and his powerful family that included several siblings holding top government positions of plunging the country into the crisis through corruption and misrule.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2022
We were talking over England's diabolical misrule, and I never knew Mr. Prang so luminous.
From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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