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Another word for tyrannical

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Adjective

  1. Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority

    See also:

    over

  2. Having and exercising complete political power and control

    See also:

    politics

    over

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Another word for tyrannical

Modifier
  1. See also:

    autocratic

    absolute

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Sentence Examples

  • He was a tyrannical ruler, and died suddenly in 1522.

  • In violation of the Law he married a brother's widow, who had already borne children, and in general he showed himself so fierce and tyrannical that the Jews joined with the Samaritans to accuse him before the emperor.

  • At his instance of the tyrannical system of arbitrary imposts and so Florence."

  • So tyrannical, however, was his rule that in 1316 he was expelled by the popular fury.

  • no less a tyrannical master than the Turks and the sheiks;, the country revolted in 1834, but the insurrection was quelled.

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