misrule Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun government that is inefficient or dishonest
    misgovernment.

WordNet

Mis*rule" transitive verb & intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To rule badly; to misgovern.
Mis*rule" noun
Definitions
  1. The act, or the result, of misruling.
  2. Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination.
    Enormous riot and misrule surveyed. Pope.

Webster 1913