misgoverned

verb

past tense of misgovern
as in mismanaged
to manage badly the ruling party was soundly defeated at the polls for having disastrously misgoverned the country

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misgoverned
  1. damaged
  2. violated
  3. abused
  4. misruled
Verb
  • At a key power plant that was severely damaged by the floods, workers started inspecting the facilities Sunday to survey the destruction.
    — Victoria Milko, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The Don Curry Nature Trail — named for the Troop 326 scoutmaster and Fort Worth attorney — replaced an older trail that had been damaged by erosion.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of damaged
Verb
  • League officials said the Clippers violated salary cap rules by initiating off-court income opportunities and facilitating endorsement agreements for Kawhi Leonard, who was also fined $700,000.
    — Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max Lederer, and reporter Lara Korte at Stars and Stripes – a military news outlet that is partially funded by the Pentagon – claimed their dismissals were retaliatory and violated the First Amendment.
    — Miles J. Herszenhorn, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of violated
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  • Furious season 1 wrapped up the case as Alice arrested Catherine at Jay Easton’s (Peter McRobbie) house — the site where Catherine and her friend Isabel (Larissa Campos) were abused.
    — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026
  • That series revealed just how little many local police departments are doing to make sure street-camera data is not being abused.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of abused
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
Definition of misruled
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“Misgoverned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misgoverned. Accessed 6 Sep. 2026.

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