misrule
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He later resigned over accusations of corruption and misrule.
From BBC • Nov. 15, 2024
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
"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
Those of the Egyptians I met who were in authority are not men who are likely to return to the debauchery and misrule of Ismail.
From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Davis, Richard Harding