male-administration
English
Noun
male-administration (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of maladministration. [17th–18th c.]
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 105:
- [H]aving finished a most severe remonstrance against Sir Steady, not only with regard to his private ingratitude, but also to his male-administration of public affairs, he sent it to the author of a weekly paper […] .
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 105:
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