misgovernment

American  

[mis-guhv-ern-muhnt, mis-guhv-er-muhnt] / mɪsˈgʌv ərn mənt, mɪsˈgʌv ər mənt /

noun

1. bad or irresponsible government exercised over a jurisdiction, program, asset, etc.; mismanagement; poor direction or administration.

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Example Sentences

Since January last year, Andrew Fahie has been the subject of an inquiry into allegations of misgovernment and corruption.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2022

But then they get reinforced as historians in the early twentieth century begin to write what is, I think, very misguided history of Reconstruction as a period of corruption and misgovernment.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2019

I mean news of chaos and misgovernment in other countries.

From Time • Jul. 11, 2013

Burke added: “They auger misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.”

From New York Times • May 30, 2010

I do not wonder that you are out of heart concerning Greece; the mismanagement here is not less than the misgovernment there, the discord the same, save that here ink is spilt instead of blood.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas