misrule

He later resigned over accusations of corruption and misrule.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2024

Political analysts said Zelenskiy needs to show Western partners and war-weary Ukrainians that he is serious about punishing misrule.

From Reuters ● Jan. 26, 2023

“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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

Those years were scored, by the spirit of misrule, with deep, dark lines of infamy.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School

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

Mr Kabila has misruled Congo for the past 17 years, after he took over from his father, who was shot by a bodyguard.

From Economist ● Jun. 1, 2017

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

Instead, there was great rejoicing, for Suliman had been made King by the people, who were sick and tired of the way Prince Darling had misruled them.

From Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell