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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
misgovern .
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Examples
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To misquote Thomas Jefferson, "That government is best that misgoverns least."
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To misquote Thomas Jefferson, "That government is best that misgoverns least."
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Old Duffy regulates the Club, Johnny Bell cultivates dahlias at Staines, Will Napier misgoverns the Guernseymen, Johnny Kincaid regulates the secrets of a prison-house, Jonathan Leach writes histories; thus each labours in his vocation, and has still a conceit left him in his misery.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903
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A nursery maid may see that a father misgoverns his children, and ill-treats his wife.
An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females Catharine Esther Beecher 1839
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A nursery maid may see that a father misgoverns his children, and ill-treats his wife.
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Christopher Columbus, Paul Robeson, Alfred E. Smith, and William Maxwell High Schools who face having their schools closed; and all the students who are fighting back against the unjust and ill-conceived policies of the Bloomberg/Klein machine that controls and misgoverns New York City schools.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Alan Singer 2010
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Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his "household."
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Certainly it’s true that the party out of power misgoverns less.
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And again: In the Transvaal "an armed minority holds the power, compels the majority to pay the taxes, denies it representation, and misgoverns it with the money extorted" (Captain Mahan, _The Merits of the Transvaal
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898
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