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Significados de tyrannous em inglês

Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior.

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Within a year they became an oppressive regime, trampling on their promises.
Reuters
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Far from the oppressive elements of Rome-free to seek his pleasures.
Cara mia - book one of the immortyl revolution
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And some of those bylaws in those days were actually quite oppressive.
Radio NZ
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The solitude in the glare of the broad August sun was oppressive.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 06
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Here in the mouth of the gorge the silence was almost oppressive.
Ride Proud, Rebel!
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The Government placed itself firmly between the tyrannical tribunal and the people.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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He described Rome in a frequent Jewish shorthand for tyrannical power, 'Babylon'.
Christianity: the first three thousand years
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The grounds of the verdict bear the impress of a tyrannical hypocrisy.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
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Fashion is change and obsolescence imposed on a pattern of tyrannical conformity.
The Red Queen
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Also, allegedly, Murphy has a managerial style that's just short of tyrannical.
Reuters
Uso de tyrannous em inglês
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Paul Faber was absolutely tyrannous in his notions as to feminine purity.
Paul Faber, Surgeon
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The same tyrannous demand hounded Mr. Eugene Field along his joke-strewn path.
Americans and Others
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For this love of ours has proven a tyrannous and evil lord.
Chivalry: Dizain des Reines
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So quickly does habit become tyrannous, especially when it involves a pleasure.
The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American...
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Henry never lacked a plausible theory to justify his most tyrannous actions.
England under the Tudors
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It has been all very paternal and beautiful, and-abominablyTory and tyrannous!
Sir George Tressady — Volume I
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That meant the Mass and all the rest of this tyrannous clinging religion.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I
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Marian was not like her mother; she could not submit to tyrannous usage.
New Grub Street
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Each must refrain from arbitrary or tyrannous interference with the rights of others.
State of the Union Addresses
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The plague is insidious at first, then tyrannous, and at last truly terrifying.
Children of Time
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It is its nature to be inconsiderate, being essentially selfish, grasping and tyrannous.
Marse Henry (Volume 2) / An Autobiography
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It lies at the root of man's most tyrannous instinctive impulses.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
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I protest against this measure as cruel', oppressive', tyrannous', and vindictive'.
McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
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Colonel Gundry, you are the most tyrannous man; in your own dominions an autocrat.
Erema; Or, My Father's Sin
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Some one single tyrannous desire sits solitary in your heart.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
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The tyrannous decrees of Napoleon have taken his noblest and best servants from him.
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
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