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Example sentences for "misgoverned"

Lexicographically close words:
misfortunes; misgave; misgives; misgiving; misgivings; misgovernment; misguided; mish; mishandled; mishandling
  1. The canons however held that the “mayor and such dreadful people of his commonalty be the misgoverned people and incomers that they spoke of.

  2. Without any efficient means of self-protection and coercion at its disposal, it had to interfere with the power, privileges and perquisites of a class which had long misgoverned the country.

  3. His father if you like, his grandfather very probably, misgoverned Ireland, but never he himself.

  4. The dislike between Leicester and those he insulted and misgoverned soon became mutual.

  5. Ireland had been the object of perpetual concessions, and, if misgoverned at all, it has been such by the excess of those concessions.

  6. Incidents such as this, by showing Mery that Sicily is no longer being misgoverned by foreigners, may in time, perhaps, teach her not to distrust professional justice.

  7. Moreover, the event proved that our grievance was no longer against the English democracy, but against the class which misgoverned us, just as it, to a lesser extent, misgoverned them.

  8. In 1881 France, with the deliberate encouragement of Bismarck, sent armies into Tunis, and assumed the protectorate of that misgoverned region.

  9. Abstractly regarded, a German dominion over the wasted and misgoverned lands of the Turkish Empire would have meant a real advance of civilisation, and would have been no more unjustifiable than the British control of Egypt or India.

  10. Irish-Americans in millions cherished a natural if sometimes foolishly directed hatred against the country that had misgoverned Erin and made it lose half its people.

  11. Coming to Egypt from India, the Englishman is inclined to believe that, while our Indian government is an averagely successful despotism, Egypt is misgoverned in an extraordinary degree.

  12. Although Ireland had been misgoverned for centuries, yet opposition, in the course of these debates attributed every mischief in that country to the present ministers.

  13. She misgoverned the islands as she had misgoverned the continent; and in the islands, as once upon the continent, her own children became her deadliest foes.


  14. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misgoverned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.