misrule

Example Sentences

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His party's years in power, however, became associated with misrule and corruption.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025

Nigeria's election next week marks nearly a quarter century of democracy in Africa's most populous nation, which in previous decades had become a byword for coups and military misrule.

From Reuters • Feb. 17, 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 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

From all accounts Espeleta was an excellent governor, and must have afforded the harassed Cubans a much needed breathing spell after the misrule of Tacon.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher