misrule

Example Sentences

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He later resigned over accusations of corruption and misrule.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2024

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

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

From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 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

Economic distress and arbitrary misrule beset Virginia for sixteen years, culminating in a popular outbreak known as Bacon's rebellion.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene