How to Use misrule in a Sentence

misrule

1 of 2 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
  • The power is the right to misrule a country without concern for the general welfare of nations or its own citizens.
    — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2017
  • But for as long as Mr Assad is allowed to misrule Syria, most aid money would be better spent helping its neighbours.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The Zaire of the 1970s had already started a long, steady descent under Mobutu’s misrule that led to its economic collapse and civil war two decades later.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Although bin Laden eventually was killed and his al-Qaida network blunted as an international threat, Afghans are still caught in a cycle of violence and misrule with no end in sight.
    — Robert Burns, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2021
  • Although bin Laden eventually was killed and his al-Qaida network blunted as an international threat, Afghans are still caught in a cycle of violence and misrule with no end in sight.
    — Robert Burns, Star Tribune, 17 July 2021

misrule

2 of 2 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
  • Now, after 50 years of misrule, comes a good pope with bold plans.
    — R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
  • It’s also proven to be a last line of defense against corruption and misrule.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Still, that leaves the problem of how to rectify what years of misrule and resentment have wrought.
    — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The engineer said decades of misrule have been hard on Iranians.
    — ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • To this day, their armed forces remain tainted by the weight of their misrule and repression some 50 years ago.
    — Kristina Mani, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Biden’s election can be more than a repudiation of Trumpian misrule.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2021
  • But this seems to have lost much of its appeal after 14 years of misrule by Shia religious parties.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Humor, absurdity and misrule are the perfect themes of today.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2020
  • The eyes here in Venice are portals to the unconscious but also analyzers of misrule.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Perhaps a similar revisionism will emerge about the years of Tory misrule.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The carnage from Republican misrule will probably be counted in six digits at least.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 27 Mar. 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
  • Unfortunately, this country has become stymied in corruption, in nepotism and in misrule.
    — New York Times, 4 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Peoples of African descent have suffered for decades under Haiti’s misrule by a succession of dictators.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 21 July 2021
  • But the discontent against Indira Gandhi’s misrule helped to revive its image.
    — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Expectations are now rising over the role the United States will play in helping Venezuela, which had already been laid low by decades of misrule.
    — Emma Bubola Jenna Russell Raj Saha Adam Liptak, New York Times, 27 June 2026
  • 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
  • Long sold as an island of stability in a sea of chaos, the nation has collapsed into misrule, requiring swift action against its kleptocratic rulers.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 12 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Typhoid and, possibly, cholera spread, along with malnutrition, a crisis exacerbated by three years of drought and five years of Taliban misrule.
    — Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2021
  • But, after decades of misrule, the PA is wildly unpopular among Palestinians themselves.
    — Ilan Berman, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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