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Meanings of autocrat in anglès

portuguès
autócrata
català
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autócrata

A cruel and oppressive dictator.

tirà
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Examples for "tyrant"
Examples for "tyrant"
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Young adult Americans, particularly graduates, are tormented by that unspeakable tyrant: success.
The Irish Times
2
Our tyrant is not the satyr or the torturer; but the miser.
A Miscellany of Men
3
And the gigantic force was centred in the hand of a tyrant.
Lectures on Modern history
4
Thus his earliest ideas are those of the tyrant or the slave.
Emile
5
Such was the shameful manner in which the tyrant treated his soldiers.
The Secret History of the Court of Justinian
1
Despotism is the madness of power; in women the despot is caprice.
Poor Relations
2
That despot must have a plastic surgery week in and week out.
The South African
3
An evilly disposed despot could have used it to practice unspeakable oppression.
The End of Man?
4
In the firm of Bannister & Co. he was an untrammelled despot.
The Coming of Bill
5
This despot was one of the most remarkable men of the period.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
Usage of autocrat in anglès
1
He talked direct democracy and people's revolution, but governed as an autocrat.
The Guardian
2
Force is always the arriere pensee of the individual and the autocrat.
The Devil's Paw
3
The old anarchist turned autocrat now figures in the gallery of demigods.
The Psychology of Revolution
4
The governor at Sitka was the autocrat of all the American Russians.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
5
His opponents see him as a budding new autocrat in Gaddafi's mould.
Reuters
6
But by far the fattest autocrat is Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga.
Mental floss presents instant knowledge
7
Yet he had no desire to be an autocrat of the drawing-room.
Sketches from Concord and Appledore / Concord thirty years ago; ...
8
Eventually, he joined protests that would help topple veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Reuters
9
The Irish Minister for Agriculture by no means rules as an autocrat.
Home Rule / Second Edition
10
I shall forbid him to take you there, said the old autocrat.
For Woman's Love
11
So must a crowd of nihilists look when they revile an autocrat.
Invisible Links
12
A successful autocrat is quite a different person from an unsuccessful one.
A Short History of Russia
13
Sultan Feysul was a complete autocrat as far as his jurisdiction extended.
Southern Arabia
14
The least appearance of opposition struck fire out of the old autocrat.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
15
He was as capricious as any autocrat, and so was his demise.
The Guardian
16
At least she's a bureaucrat instead of a weirdo or an autocrat.
Wired
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