verb
- to govern badly or incompetently
Usage: formal
Examples
- The corrupt officials misgoverned the province for decades.
- Critics argued that the administration had misgoverned the economy.
- A leader who misgoverns will eventually lose public support.
- The colony was misgoverned by a series of incompetent governors.
- They accused the mayor of misgoverning the city during the crisis.
- History shows what happens when rulers misgovern their people.