Examples of misrule in a Sentence
Verb
accused of misruling his island nation to the point of economic collapse
Noun
The people of that country have endured many years of misrule.
the country's long period of misrule had made it a hotbed for terrorist organizations
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Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Congo had been brutally misruled by Belgium for over 70 years when the winds of change blew through in the late 1950s.
—Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
The engineer said decades of misrule have been hard on Iranians.
—ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
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Verb
The result is a society that feels both rule-bound and misruled, saturated with laws and yet strangely lawless.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Congo had been brutally misruled by Belgium for over 70 years when the winds of change blew through in the late 1950s.
—Zachariah Mampilly, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
Noun
Authorities have forever linked soccer with the misrule of the mob: What bounces is at best frivolous, at worst dangerous.
—Julian Bell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
The engineer said decades of misrule have been hard on Iranians.
—ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
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“Misrule.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misrule. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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misrule
1 of 2 verb
mis·rule
(ˈ)mis-ˈrül 
: to rule or govern badly
misrule
2 of 2 noun1
: the action of misruling : the state of being misruled
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