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Meanings of tyrant in English
Usage of tyrant in English
1
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.
3
And the gigantic force was centred in the hand of a tyrant.
4
Thus his earliest ideas are those of the tyrant or the slave.
5
Such was the shameful manner in which the tyrant treated his soldiers.
6
One day they will say you prevented the rise of a tyrant.
7
The most cruel tyrant the northern lands ever knew was Christian II.
8
Before the moon sets, the tyrant of Lanark must fall in blood.
9
I was a thorough tyrant; I did with you what I pleased.
10
But new freedom could not exist in safety under the old tyrant.
11
The melancholy person in his self-scrutiny becomes an intolerant tyrant to himself.
12
No one would understand better how to deal with a petty tyrant!
13
It was only to get him out of the way-theyoung tyrant.
14
The Saurophagus sulphuratus is typical of the great American tribe of tyrant-flycatchers.
15
The passionate-hearted singer amused the captain and half deceived her watchful tyrant.
16
They must be faithful to the traitors and benevolent to the tyrant.
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Tyrant across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common