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

“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

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

So began the period of misrule by which Henry III. is chiefly remembered in history.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various