Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MAL-AD-MIN-IS-TRA'TION
MAL-AD-JUST'MENTMAL-A-DROIT'NESS
MAL-AD-MIN-IS-TRA'TION, n. [See Mal and Administer.]
Bad management of public affairs; vicious or defective conduct in administration, or the performance of official duties, particularly of executive and ministerial duties, prescribed by law; as, the maladministration of a king, or of any chief magistrate.
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