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s | kakistocracy |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun kakistocracy is

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

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    kakistocracy

    English

    Noun

    (kakistocracies)
  • Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens.
  • * 1894 , James Russell Lowell, Letters of James Russell Lowell]'' - ''To Joel Benton [1876, p.159:
    • Is ours a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?
  • * 1999 , Gang Deng, The Premodern Chinese Economy: Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility :
    • Thus, the problem was not whether corruption/power abuse was allowed, but how to keep a balance between uprightness and kakistocracy .
  • * 2000 , Tom H. Hastings, Ecology of War and Peace: Counting the Cost of Conflict :
    • Some nation-states have suffered what the Greeks called kakistocracy'—government by the worst of men. International law can, in theory if not always in practice, keep these ' kakistocracies from damaging too much.

    External links

    * World Wide Words: Kakistocracy * Rick Finkelstein: Kakistocracy... A Word You Should Know English words suffixed with -cracy