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misrule

/mis-rool/US // mɪsˈrul //UK // (ˌmɪsˈruːl) //

误国,错乱,误区,误导

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : bad or unwise rule; misgovernment.
    • : disorder or lawlessness.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mis·ruled, mis·rul·ing.

    • : to misgovern.

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Examples

  • The widespread mocking of fuel prices served to create a middle-class “common sense” that the UPA was a time of exceptional misrule and corruption.

  • A decade ago, Afghans were exhausted by years of war and misrule.

  • Pan and Dionysos: the gods of sensual misrule were his muses.

  • I find that some captains have begun to give money at the next port, instead of permitting this day of misrule.

  • With the Bourbons it was hoped a better era had opened, but it was only exchanging one form of misrule for another.

  • It was from no ill-will towards the Church that he did something to repair the ecclesiastical misrule.

  • They already furnish an exhilarating example of the difference between free governments and despotic misrule.

  • We have no "lords of misrule" now; or, if we have, they are of a much less innocent and pacific character.