kakistocracy

Give you a chance to see the kakistocracy at work.

He wouldn't have sneaked off and betrayed her to the kakistocracy.

Here we are today, the world a different place, but the leader of today's Russia is now threatened by a rump kakistocracy.

I guess then you might say that the members of the kakistocracy excel at casuistry.

The president himself, the commander in chief of the kakistocracy, would be sleeping off his anesthesia right down the hall.

A decent man by all accounts, even if he was engaged in extending the domain of the kakistocracy.

What's this kakistocracy you're always talking about?

The kakistocracy reflects the anomie of our times.

My guess was that it was related to the Greek word for "bad," as in kakistocracy - "government by the worst people."

The opposite of an aristocracy is kakistocracy.

Another of the kakistocracy's finest awaits us.

It may have originated as an ironic pun from kakistocracy, which means government by a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.

Late last year, the kakistocracy propping up Boris Yeltsin decided not to risk giving up power.

The kakistocracy was in session.

Word: kakistocracy .

Yes, we want perestroika to succeed - if, and only if, that means wresting power from a kakistocracy and vesting sovereignty in the people.

When the Polish population revolts against the Ubus' kakistocracy, Ma and Pa must flee to America.

But I loathe the idea of the kakistocracy designing and administering the program, imposing guidelines for medical decisions that should be a matter solely between doctor and patient.

Khakistocracy (from khaki and kakistocracy) is a portmanteau word used to refer to the military rule of a country often in collusion with the elite and business classes.

I tried kak-handed, a dialect term used by my English father-in-law to mean "clumsy, fumbling," and may be related to "dirty" or the Greek-rooted "bad," as in kakistocracy, "government by the worst people."

He was something of a legend on the Hill, admired, almost revered, by his colleagues in the kakistocracy for the innovative approach to campaign financing he developed while serving on the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Readers caught the allusion to the rump Parliament , the remainder left in England's Parliament after gutting by Oliver Cromwell, but some queried kakistocracy , defined in the American Heritage Third but not yet picked up by other leading dictionaries.

Don Diego feels that honor is now dead in Spain . . . and, considering certain of the shameful acts and base practices of the kakistocracy that presently controls the King of Spain, Don Diego may well be of a correctness, entirely.