tyrannical
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He added that Israel's democracy was a unique model that has surpassed many of what he described as the tyrannical, totalitarian Arab regimes.
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- adjective Of or relating to a tyrant or tyranny: a tyrannical government.
- adjective Characteristic of a tyrant or tyranny; despotic and oppressive: a tyrannical supervisor.
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- My mother was affectionate and indulgent; my sisters were harsh and tyrannical, and in very early girlhood taught me to hate them. — The Memories of Fifty Years
- It described what he called âThe Crime against Kansasâ; and the excuses for the crime he denominated the apology tyrannical, the apology imbecile, the apology absurd, and the apology infamous. — Abraham Lincoln A History
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He added that Israel's democracy was a unique model that has surpassed many of what he described as the tyrannical, totalitarian Arab regimes.
— Elder of Ziyon - There is intellectual pleasure only in the possibility of returning to it when one has been out for a long time; but to live always in this Moi which is the most tyrannical, the most exacting, the most fantastic of companions, no, one must not. â” — The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
- 'Hi, P.T.' — Deal Breaker
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- from tyrannic + -al.
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/ (tĭ-rănˈĭ-kəl, tī-)/
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