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Meanings of dictatorial manner in English

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Usage of dictatorial manner in English
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He turned again to me, and said, in a dictatorial manner:
Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure
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You will have my uncle's real kindness without his crotchets and his dictatorial manner.
Mr. Hogarth's Will
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Her austere and dictatorial manner vanished at the moment she preferred the request for peppermints.
The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel
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Ignoring his dictatorial manner, I tied my bandanna to the holly bush, and we headed back.
Death du Jour
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To mask the aridity of his soul, he adopted his old method of a curt, dictatorial manner.
Atlantis
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He, Gerrit Ammidon, wouldn't have it, he asserted in a heated return of his familiar dictatorial manner.
Java Head
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Others began to complain of the high-handed, dictatorial manner in which Percival and his friends ruled the community.
West Wind Drift
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I felt sure Nefret had not forgotten about it, but my dictatorial manner had prevented her from pursuing the subject.
A river in the sky
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Even at that time he behaved in a very dictatorial manner to those gentlemen when his compositions were badly executed.
Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1
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He was a brilliant, cultured speaker, but had a curt, dictatorial manner, with an air always of looking down upon his public.
My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
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Avoiding the bombast, the occasional coarseness of rougher natures, the self- esteem, and the dictatorial manner, she yet says no, when she means no.
Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls, in School and Out
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To assume, in a dictatorial manner, to catechise others as to their views on any subject, especially if they are older than yourself, is unseemly.
A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females / Being a Seri...
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"On what?" snapped Breen, something of his old dictatorial manner asserting itself.
Peter: A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero
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"Look here," he said, in a more dictatorial manner than he had ever used before.
Alcatraz
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"Then that is understood," he said in his usual dictatorial manner, taking my consent for granted.
Castles in the Air
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"Let us not discuss Cosmo Versál," exclaimed Professor Pludder, with a return of his old dictatorial manner.
The Second Deluge
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