(v. t.) To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country.
Example Sentences:
(1) The decision raised hackles both in Washington, where it was feared it would tarnish the credibility of the war effort, and in Afghanistan, where many local people concluded the Americans were not serious about rooting out corruption and misgovernance.
(2) Climbing has become a key source of income for Nepal , a state reduced to poverty by lengthy civil strife and misgovernment.
(3) Eritrea is poor, misgoverned, miserable and far away.
(4) The fact that she turned the next two decades into 20 years of brilliant service as a critic of misgovernment and mismanagement was a heartwarming story, at least outside the governments of Blair and Gordon Brown.
(5) Yehor Sobelev, a journalist and Maidan activist who now leads the Lustration Committee – a body that wants to force all Ukrainian public officials to undergo checks for past links to corruption and misgovernance – says Poroshenko has not done nearly enough during his time in charge.
(6) Vinod Mehta, editor of Outlook news magazine, said the party had lost power because of "more than three decades of misgovernment and dogma".
(7) Hamas's upset election victory in 2006 was built largely on despair with the corruption, misgovernance and authoritarianism of the ruling Fatah, led by Yasser Arafat until his death two years earlier.
(8) Economically misgoverned for a generation, we are reduced to being principle-free economic mendicants, with Bambi Osborne and Thumper Johnson touring the world for hand-outs.
(9) Ireland departed the union in exasperation at London misgovernment in 1922 .
Misrule
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To rule badly; to misgovern.
(n.) The act, or the result, of misruling.
(n.) Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.
Example Sentences:
(1) Libya’s state institutions, already plagued by decades of misrule under Italian colonialism, a monarchy, and Gaddafi’s regime, have been further eroded by four years of upheaval.
(2) The decade of misrule by Amin saw a collapse of the country and an exodus of doctors and other professions.
(3) Wood will feature in a BBC2 documentary celebrating the career of her regular on-screen collaborator Julie Walters, and the channel will also air Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule, narrated by Simon Callow, which the BBC says will feature rare and unseen archive footage of the comedian who died in June, along with contributions from actors and comedians including Simon Pegg, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton and Alexei Sayle.
(4) "The fixing of borders and the absence of debate about them has protected misrule," he said.
(5) Elsewhere, hardy perennials Beasts – directed as ever by Pappy’s lord of misrule Tom Parry – present Mr Edinburgh 2016, a sketch show masquerading as a (sports?
(6) The lords of misrule will not be overthrown by mumbling.
(7) "He was more of an old-fashioned lord of misrule than a hardened criminal.
(8) The group says there have been 50 years of misrule by the country's southern-based administration; this, and the people's distinct ethnic and cultural identity, are reasons for the need for an independent state.
(9) Many deeply unpleasant administrations around the world suddenly decided that deep-rooted domestic campaigns of Islamic militant violence were nothing to do with decades of repressive misrule and everything to do with a newly discovered, for most people, group led by Osama bin Laden.
(10) The polls - which pit Kabila against 10 rivals while more than 18,500 candidates compete for 500 seats in parliament - will test progress towards stability after decades of misrule and two wars in the last 15 years.
(11) But lest anyone forget that the misrule of Russian law applies to all, the country's main opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, faces a six-year jail sentence and a 1m rouble fine on charges that he embezzled 16m roubles worth of timber from a state firm when he was advising the governor of Kirov.
(12) Their declaration of independence cited 50 years of misrule by the country's southern-based administration and was issued by the National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad, or NMLA, whose army is led by a Tuareg colonel who fought in the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's military.
(13) It may indeed deepen the feeling among ordinary Libyans that misrule by militias must end.
(14) The elections have been presented to Malians as a way of starting afresh after 20 years of misrule and corruption, which has left the vast expanses of the north of Mali underdeveloped and prey to illicit trades, including smuggling and hostage-taking.
(15) There is another London I always knew existed, a place more familiar to my own teenage children who know its rules and misrule – the places that are dangerous, the streets to avoid.
(16) The Conservatives have done a thorough job painting the economic crisis in shades of Labour misrule.
(17) The second is provided by the police, which, while suffering a thoroughly deserved collapse in their own reputation, seeks to draw a picture of chaos and misrule that demands ever harsher and more invasive policing techniques.
(18) These two are more similar than they care to think: lords of modern misrule, without a clue about the way forward.
(19) Strangely enough, at St Paul's Cathedral this suggestion of medieval misrule has become very real as an attack on the City turned into a dissolution of the orderly facade of the Church of England.
(20) But their demands for transparent democracy, freedom of expression and an end to misrule by mullahs have not been forgotten.