Synonyms
Examples for "tyrant"
Examples for "tyrant"
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Young adult Americans, particularly graduates, are tormented by that unspeakable tyrant: success.
2
Our tyrant is not the satyr or the torturer; but the miser.
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And the gigantic force was centred in the hand of a tyrant.
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Thus his earliest ideas are those of the tyrant or the slave.
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Such was the shameful manner in which the tyrant treated his soldiers.
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Despotism is the madness of power; in women the despot is caprice.
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That despot must have a plastic surgery week in and week out.
3
An evilly disposed despot could have used it to practice unspeakable oppression.
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In the firm of Bannister & Co. he was an untrammelled despot.
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This despot was one of the most remarkable men of the period.
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He talked direct democracy and people's revolution, but governed as an autocrat.
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Force is always the arriere pensee of the individual and the autocrat.
3
The old anarchist turned autocrat now figures in the gallery of demigods.
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The governor at Sitka was the autocrat of all the American Russians.
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His opponents see him as a budding new autocrat in Gaddafi's mould.
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But by far the fattest autocrat is Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga.
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Yet he had no desire to be an autocrat of the drawing-room.
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Eventually, he joined protests that would help topple veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
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The Irish Minister for Agriculture by no means rules as an autocrat.
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I shall forbid him to take you there, said the old autocrat.
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So must a crowd of nihilists look when they revile an autocrat.
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A successful autocrat is quite a different person from an unsuccessful one.
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Sultan Feysul was a complete autocrat as far as his jurisdiction extended.
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The least appearance of opposition struck fire out of the old autocrat.
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He was as capricious as any autocrat, and so was his demise.
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At least she's a bureaucrat instead of a weirdo or an autocrat.
