Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Disorder or lawless confusion.
- noun Inept or unwise rule; misgovernment.
- transitive verb To rule ineptly, unjustly, or unwisely; misgovern.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Bad rule; misgovernment; wrongful exercise of power or authority.
- noun Absence of control or restraint; insubordination; disorder.
- To rule badly; govern unwisely or oppressively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To rule badly; to misgovern.
- noun The act, or the result, of misruling.
- noun Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.
- noun See under
Abbot , andLord .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb law Of a trial judge, to make a bad decision in
court . - verb To be
inefficient in government management.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun government that is inefficient or dishonest
Etymologies
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Examples
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Your first two years may serve as a blueprint for how David Cameron acts after the Conservatives win the next general election and the true scale of Labour misrule is exposed.
http://www.london.gov.uk/ and some advice for Boris Not a sheep 2008
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Your first two years may serve as a blueprint for how David Cameron acts after the Conservatives win the next general election and the true scale of Labour misrule is exposed.
Archive 2008-05-01 Not a sheep 2008
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He shall show that Christ's errand into the world was to set things to right in it, and to introduce times of reformation and regeneration; and he proves it by this, that the prince of this world, the great master of misrule, is judged and expelled.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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He is set to inherit, come January 2009, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1920s; the complete and bloody mess Bush and his cronies have made of Iraq, and Afghanistan; a health service which, in the world's biggest democracy, is an absolute disgrace of inequality and poor or non-existent provision; and, a view of the US internationally which could not be more damning or dire and yet, until now, under Dubya's two-term misrule, was entirely justified on grounds of the outgoing administration's inexhaustible arrogance and insane 'go it alone and to hell with the rest of you' policies.
British Blogs 2008
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He is set to inherit, come January 2009, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1920s; the complete and bloody mess Bush and his cronies have made of Iraq, and Afghanistan; a health service which, in the world's biggest democracy, is an absolute disgrace of inequality and poor or non-existent provision; and, a view of the US internationally which could not be more damning or dire and yet, until now, under Dubya's two-term misrule, was entirely justified on grounds of the outgoing administration's inexhaustible arrogance and insane 'go it alone and to hell with the rest of you' policies.
British Blogs 2008
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If the Conservative policy is to strengthen the Union it would seem the only way to go - they can hardly start saying that Labour misrule was a good thing and the Conservatives will do it more and better.
One Large Donor Please..... Newmania 2007
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One of the prominent characteristics of winter celebrations was the idea of misrule, in which social roles were temporarily reversed.
Happy Christmakwanzakah A. Bennett 2007
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Casey told reporters Tuesday that Mugabe's "misrule" has turned
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If, after ten years of Labour "misrule", the result is that "we're living in a new world of freedom … etc.", what do we need the Conservatives for?
Archive 2007-10-01 Richard 2007
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If, after ten years of Labour "misrule", the result is that "we're living in a new world of freedom … etc.", what do we need the Conservatives for?
Planet, which, on…? Richard 2007
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