How to Use misrule in a Sentence

misrule

noun

• The people of that country have endured many years of misrule.
• Who knows what this country will look like after four years of his misrule.
  — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Trump’s misrule and through his effort to open the U.S. to any and all with a bit of dirty money burning holes in their pockets.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2020
• Still, that leaves the problem of how to rectify what years of misrule and resentment have wrought.
  — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
• It’s also proven to be a last line of defense against corruption and misrule.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2022
• In 38 years of misrule, Eyadéma did not build a hospital that could treat even his own heart disease.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2017
• Places that once seemed the oasis of calm and decency, now extolled as examples of chaos and misrule.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 30 Sep. 2020
• But this seems to have lost much of its appeal after 14 years of misrule by Shia religious parties.
  — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
• Whether or not Putin is ever put in handcuffs, his place in history is now secure in the darkest pages of massacres and misrule.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 18 Mar. 2023
• The eyes here in Venice are portals to the unconscious but also analyzers of misrule.
  — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
• Under Maduro, the basic qualities of governance have eroded, caused by his misrule as well as a drop in world oil prices since 2014.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2017
• Biden’s election can be more than a repudiation of Trumpian misrule.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2021
• Many accuse Wickremesinghe of protecting the Rajapaksas, who are widely blamed for corruption and misrule that led to the crisis.
  — Krishan Francis, ajc, 30 July 2022
• The violence in northern Sinai, stoked by years of Egyptian misrule and the emergence of radical extremist groups in the region, shows little sign of waning.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2018
• Humor, absurdity and misrule are the perfect themes of today.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2020
• Famished subjects rail against their country’s misrule.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• Peoples of African descent have suffered for decades under Haiti’s misrule by a succession of dictators.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 21 July 2021
• Perhaps a similar revisionism will emerge about the years of Tory misrule.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• But for decades, DR Congo has been dogged by corruption, misrule by its leaders and violent ethnic conflicts.
  — Lekan Oguntoyinbo, Quartz Africa, 23 June 2019
• Some say Bashir planted the seeds of his own downfall in driving displacement to Khartoum, concentrating rising discontent over his misrule in camps that flanked the city on all sides.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• The country remains consumed by a debate over whether he was ousted in a coup, as Morales and his loyalists allege, or in a democratic uprising against his misrule.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2019
• The demonstration was part of a wave of protests sweeping Lebanon against corruption and misrule by a group of politicians who have monopolized power since the country's civil war ended three decades ago.
  — Star Tribune, 22 Nov. 2020
• More broadly, Lukashenko’s efforts highlight just how much his brand of dictatorial misrule has infected regimes both near and far.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2020
• Venezuela’s implosion and Nicaragua’s misrule and growing violence threaten to reverse this progress and destabilize the region.
  — Margarita Herdocia, Time, 13 June 2018
• But the discontent against Indira Gandhi’s misrule helped to revive its image.
  — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• Unlike the best breads that still go stale, every single day of Mardi Gras, through the pendulum’s last swing on Fat Tuesday, is going to be as sweet as the first, as mirth and misrule replenish themselves with each new sunrise.
  — al, 6 Feb. 2022
• After two impeachments and innumerable disclosures, was there anything new to learn about the misrule of Donald Trump?
  — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2022
• The carnage from Republican misrule will probably be counted in six digits at least.
  — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 27 Mar. 2020
• His horrifying misrule convinced even die-hard autocrats that the country could not survive with an incompetent dolt at the apex of power.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 Aug. 2021
• With long-standing grievances over Iran’s weak economy, corruption, and clerical misrule swelling the ranks of protesters further, some had even predicted that the regime would fall.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024