Meanings of as tyrannical in English

Therein he could be as tyrannical as the old lady herself.

But majorities can be just as tyrannical as the worst dictator.

They would have complained of this as tyrannical and cruel.

His mother sounded almost as tyrannical as her own, although they came from very different backgrounds.

But, Sir, this effort is impotent as tyrannical.

The second body of legislators are liable and likely to be just as tyrannical as the first.

In this they were sustained by numerous volunteers from the fort, who looked upon the interference as tyrannical.

They regard its restrictions as tyrannical.

We are censured as tyrannical, for hindering those from fishing, who have condemned our merchants to bankruptcy, and our manufacturers to hunger.

But she would make her father understand that though she obeyed him she regarded the exercise of his authority as tyrannical and irrational.

He humoured and even flattered the King, although perpetually denounced by Winwood in his letters to his sovereign as tyrannical, over-bearing, malignant, and treacherous.

King John (1199-1216), the third of the Plantagenet line, was as tyrannical as he was unscrupulous and wicked.

Suppose the United States should refuse to trade with Russia because, from our republican point of view, we regarded her government as tyrannical and oppressive?