kakistocracy
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Noun — Rule by the worst or least able people in a country.
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Etymology
Formed from Ancient Greek κάκιστος (kákistos, "worst"), the superlative of κακός (kakós, "bad"), combined with -κρατία (-kratía, "power, rule, government"), which corresponds to -cracy. The English author Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) used the word, perhaps re-coining it, in his 1829 novella The Misfortunes of Elphin...
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