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misgovern
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Word definitions for misgovern in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To govern badly or wrongly.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. govern badly
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from mis- (1) + govern . Related: Misgoverned ; misgoverning .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misgovern \Mis*gov"ern\, v. t. To govern badly; as, to misgovern a country. --Knolles.
Usage examples of misgovern.
It excites those emotions which it is the chief object of civilization to extinguish for ever, and in the extinction of which alone there can be any hope of better institutions than those under which men now misgovern one another.
From my accounts of the treason-trials and similar atrocities it will probably be deduced that the Empire under Tiberius was intolerably misgoverned in all departments.
Rational despotism--that is, selective despotism--is always a curse to mankind, because with that you have the ordinary man misunderstood and misgoverned by some prig who has no brotherly respect for him at all.
Rome enough to attempt to invade our Asia Province, misgoverned shambles though it might be.
Besieged by solicitations for products and services we neither want nor need, misrepresented and misgoverned by corrupt politicians beholden to multinational megacorporations, and reduced to involuntary servitude by usurious financial institutions, we are not so much consumers as we are in danger of being consumed.