misrule

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He later resigned over accusations of corruption and misrule.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2024

"I ask for time, valuable time to rescue the country from corruption and misrule."

From Reuters • Dec. 8, 2022

They accuse him and his powerful family, which includes several siblings who until recently held Cabinet positions, of precipitating the crisis through corruption and misrule.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 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

Exactions, crushing hope out of the people, the general insecurity of property, and the misrule which has blighted these fine Asiatic provinces everywhere, sufficiently explain its decadence.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)