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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
misgovern .
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Examples
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Er, isn't that what was said about GWB, all the while his buddies are making their fortunes off the Iraq misadventure and his other 'misgoverning'?
George Stephanopoulos Responds To Obama, Defends Handling Of Debate 2009
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Nobody doubts the anti-imperialist credentials of ZANU (PF), but that cannot be sufficient reason to support it if it is misgoverning Zimbabwe and brutalising the people.
ANC Today 2008
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From 1988-1999, every time the prime minister was misgoverning and the economy was going down, the military stepped in.
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Nobody doubts the anti-imperialist credentials of ZANU (PF), but that cannot be sufficient reason to support it if it is misgoverning Zimbabwe and brutalising the people.
ANC Today 2008
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From 1988-1999, every time the prime minister was misgoverning and the economy was going down, the military stepped in.
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Rather than setting achieving and holding office as an all encompassing goal, the Reagan administration was actually preoccupied with governing -- or, I should say, misgoverning.
Marshall Grossman: Obama, Clinton and the Reagan Flap: The Vision Thing Again 2008
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There are actually two possible courses that offer better promise: (1) Stop jumping up and down in partisan frenzy for lesser-devils and insist upon champions, or (2) deliver our demands for decent governance by direct and massive confrontation of whatever variety of devils are misgoverning our nation at the time.
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The blood of a martyr is the best easy-wipe solution for the stains of corruption and misgoverning in the part of the world where I come from.
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The former Secretary of State and Lynne have been blunt in dismissing Rhodri's defence that Welsh Labour's unpopularity is as a result of British Labour's misgoverning - and they are spot on.
'Called to Order' and 'Time to Go'. Glyn Davies 2008
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It's about fundamental principles, (inaudible) governing or misgoverning.
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