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Definition of Misgovernment
1. Noun. Government that is inefficient or dishonest.
Generic synonyms: Administration, Governance, Governing, Government, Government Activity
Derivative terms: Misgovern
Definition of Misgovernment
1. n. Bad government; want of government.
Definition of Misgovernment
1. Noun. Bad government. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misgovernment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misgovernment
Literary usage of Misgovernment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"CHAPTER XIX THE HICKS EXPEDITION JANUARY-NOVEMBER 1883 Extent of Egyptian
territory—misgovernment in the Soudan—Slave- hunting— Said Pasha's views — Colonel ..."
2. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"The western peasants were at once up in arms, and the Episcopalian clergy who
had been the instruments of the Stuart misgovernment ever since the ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"The insecurity and oppression, resulting from the incapacity and misgovernment
of King Otho, had disgusted the three guaranteeing Powers as well as the ..."
4. Essentials in English History: (from the Earliest Records to the Present Day) by Albert Perry Walker, Albert Bushnell Hart (1919)
"His favor was chiefly bestowed on an ambitious and avaricious foreigner, Piers
Gaveston, whose arrogance and misgovernment soon roused the barons to ..."
5. Life of Emery A. Storrs: His Wit and Eloquence, as Shown in a Notable by Isaac E. Adams (1886)
"CHICAGO CITY misgovernment. THE CHICAGO MUNICIPAL ELECTION OF 1879—MR. ...
THE misgovernment of the municipal affairs of the city of Chicago, ..."
6. Economic Beginnings of the Far West: How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi by Katharine Coman (1912)
"... means of subsistence.8 misgovernment It might have been possible for the
natives and the settlers to live at peace but for the scant supply of water. ..."
7. The Life and Times of Joseph Gould: Struggles of the Early Canadian Settlers by W. H. Higgins (1887)
"1837—misgovernment of Canada—The causes which led up to rebellion—Mr. Gould's
statement of the case—Political excitement—Position of Lower Canada—The power ..."
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