misrule

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They badly underestimated her massive star power, and they underestimated how much their decades of misrule had alienated most of the population.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2026

Lawmaker Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, first deputy head of the parliamentary committee on anti-corruption policy, said the shakeup partly sought to demonstrate that Kyiv saw cracking down on misrule as a key element of its Western integration.

From Reuters • Jan. 25, 2023

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

But Filipinos seemed ready to embrace their democratic rights and move on from Marcos’s misrule.

From Washington Post • May 9, 2022

Grosseteste realized that the misrule of Henry III. and his unprincipled compact with the papacy largely accounted for the degeneracy of the English hierarchy and the laxity of ecclesiastical discipline.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various