misrule

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

Just ask Haitians in Miami who have long suffered under terror and misrule, or ask the Central Americans who fled civil wars.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 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

God still with man, though not with man's misrule, Never with thee, daughter of force and fraud, Mother of guile—thy refuge and thy shame!

From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. Whitney

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

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

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

The book by the Dean of St. Patrick's, "Gulliver's Travels," is a perfect caricature of the political dwarfs of his time, and vividly represents the men who misruled this country in George III's reign.

From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Walter Runciman