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
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
By a singular coincidence, the chief Catholic Archbishops were at this time men of intelligence and humane aspirations, who did their best to remedy the scandalous misrule of their predecessors.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard