Definition of "misgoverns" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misgovern. (verb)

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• "To misquote Thomas Jefferson, "That government is best that misgoverns least.""
• "Old Duffy regulates the Club, Johnny Bell cultivates dahlias at Staines, Will Napier misgoverns the Guernseymen, Johnny Kincaid regulates the secrets of a prison-house, Jonathan Leach writes histories; thus each labours in his vocation, and has still a conceit left him in his misery."
• "A nursery maid may see that a father misgoverns his children, and ill-treats his wife."