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

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 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

They accuse him and his powerful family, which includes several siblings who until recently held top government positions, of precipitating the crisis through corruption and misrule.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2022

But the very reverse of all this is evidently the case; and it may be doubted if any sovereign in Europe has less taste for license and misrule than King Louis-Philippe.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton