maladministration

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Imperial politics; and municipal maladministration is a perennial subject for his denunciations.

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  1. Faulty management of affairs; vicious or defective conduct in the performance of official duties, particularly of executive and ministerial duties prescribed by law. Formerly maleadministration. The violence of revolutions is generally proportioned to the degree of the maladministration which has produced them. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiii.

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  • A memorial forwarded this year to Henry, probably in consequence of certain complaints of maladministration which had been sent to the council the preceding winter, is very interesting. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri of Monmouth Vol. II by J. Endell Tyler
  • Taking advantage of dissatisfaction resulting from Ottoman-Egyptian exploitation and maladministration, the Mahdi led a nationalist revolt culminating in the fall of Khartoum in
  • It's now obvious that every argument - every argument - made in defense of the bush maladministration is at best deluded and more likely a pack of lies. by: you @ soon —  BlueGrassRoots - Front Page
  • In the previous maladministration, our powers were so misused that any interference has become yet another expression of ignorant aggression. —  The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics
  • AS AN example of maladministration, the saga of the new national children's hospital should have a place in the history books of the future -- and in the handbooks of the present, as a dreadful example of procedures to avoid. —  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
 

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