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Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.

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kakistocracy

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Source Word

kakistocracy

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kakɪsˈtɒkɹəsɪ/

Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.

Japanese Meaning

国民の中で最も劣った、または能力不足な者が統治を行っている国家体制

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Many citizens feared that the new cabinet would become a kakistocracy, with incompetence and corruption guiding every decision.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

多くの市民は、新しい内閣が最も資格のない、あるいは最悪の市民によって支配される政府となり、無能さと腐敗があらゆる決定を左右するのではないかと恐れていた。

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Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.

Therefore we need not make any scruple of praying against […] those restlesse spirits who can no longer live, then be stickling and medling; who are stung with a perpetuall itch of changing and innovating, transforming our old Hierarchy into a new Presbytery, and this againe into a newer Independency; and our well-temperd Monarchy into a mad kinde of Kakistocracy.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

kakistocracies

（ plural ）

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