Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ill or badly governed; characterized by bad administration, as of public affairs: as, a misgoverned country or people.—2. Led astray; misguided; ill-behaved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Ill governed, as a people; ill directed.
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- verb Present participle of
misgovern .
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Examples
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The way he has governed ( "misgoverned", rather) CA has proven it.
Latest Articles 2008
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Outside Ahmedabad a new city, Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), is rising as a thinly veiled threat to India's hopelessly misgoverned financial capital, Mumbai, in neighboring Maharashtra.
Prime Minister Modi Won't Fly Sadanand Dhume 2010
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Outside Ahmedabad a new city, Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), is rising as a thinly veiled threat to India's hopelessly misgoverned financial capital, Mumbai, in neighboring Maharashtra.
Prime Minister Modi Won't Fly Sadanand Dhume 2010
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The negroes were exalted; the states were misgoverned and looted in their name; and a few men … went away with the gains.
How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010
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Outside Ahmedabad a new city, Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT), is rising as a thinly veiled threat to India's hopelessly misgoverned financial capital, Mumbai, in neighboring Maharashtra.
Prime Minister Modi Won't Fly Sadanand Dhume 2010
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Would anyone seriously believe that if the Iraqi Air Force bombed Iranian nuclear facilities, it would cause the Iranian people to conclude that they were misgoverned, and their hardline, nuke-seeking leaders brought them to the brink of destruction?
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I have several long reads ahead of me plus longer thinks - thanks to James and Sonus... and I was planning to spend the weekend with Herodotus! in all this and I was only trying to briefly distinguish between my perception of what may, indeed, be a true and accurate account of how we are misgoverned on the one hand, and your personal faith on the other.
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They know how badly he's misgoverned the state for such a long time.
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Burma (or Myanmar) is a top contender on anyone's list of most misgoverned lands.
Doug Bandow: The Scandal of International Religious Persecution 2009
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It wasn't that the country was merely being misgoverned, or that Wall Street had run wild.
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