(n.) One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.
(n.) One who is overbearing in his temper or habits; a proud or haughty person.
(n.) One who favors an aristocracy as a form of government, or believes the aristocracy should govern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wealthy, charismatic, aristocratic, 6ft 2ins and with a luxuriant moustache, he led a decadent life.
(2) The Aristocrats is a gag comedians tell each other in private.
(3) Wilde, however, with his high earnings and his flamboyance, made of precariousness something aristocratic; he was, if you’ll forgive the coinage, a precaristocrat.
(4) A rather eccentric populist-aristocratic campaign called You Forgot the Birds has also been launched against the RSPB led by the former cricketer Ian Botham, claiming that the charity neglects small songbirds in its veneration of birds of prey.
(5) After 12 years of Churchill, Eden and Macmillan, most people in the media were tired of aristocratic old men in tweed jackets.
(6) Fifty years later, Frostie, as his aristocratic nephews and nieces sometimes called him (his wife, Carina, was a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), was still warding off brickbats from high-minded critics.
(7) As we speak the final 10 days of production are under way, meaning farewell to the show’s trump card, Highclere Castle, home of real-life aristocrats, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon.
(8) (Shades of Louis XIV’s France, when aristocrats were exempt from tax.)
(9) Inspector Reg Wexford wasn’t an aristocrat or a brilliant Oxbridge wit.
(10) When the family arrived in England in 1938, his father anglicised the name to Lynton from an aristocratic German mouthful, though Norbert's elder brother scorned this refuge.
(11) Owning an island in the Pacific (Ellison owns Lanai in Hawaii) or the Caribbean (Branson owns Necker Island in the West Indies) shows your need for extreme privacy and luxury – the quintessential expression of a natural aristocrat.
(12) Even the king's private life, where rumours of lovers have always been rife, is no longer out of bounds – and neither is his friendship with a German aristocrat whose name is widely available in Spain and Germany, but whose lawyers say she denies any inappropriate relationship and have threatened legal action against any British newspapers that reveal her name.
(13) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
(14) The idea of the vampire as a silver-tongued aristocrat, like Count Dracula, is mirrored in Irving's thespian mannerisms, and his fascination with theatrical villains.
(15) It will determine whether Russia will be dominated by an "aristocratic" or "arrestocratic" dynamic into the second decade of the 21st century.
(16) Ishiguro's flawed but introspective narrators are always fascinating portraits of unusual characters: in A Pale View from the Hills, the narrator is a Japanese widow living in England, The Remains of the Day is narrated by the butler of an Nazi-sympathising English aristocrat, and a callow English private detective is the central character in When We Were Orphans.
(17) Thinking about it, the best metaphor might be a row among one of those aristocratic families whose stately home is falling down around them.
(18) Is the collapse of the party that turned this country from an enclave of aristocratic power into a functioning democracy inevitable?
(19) The ITV drama, telling the story of the aristocratic Crawley family, is to return to screens later this year for the fifth series since its debut in 2010.
(20) "You have to remember that, back in India, we came from an aristocratic background," Desai says.
Tyrant
Definition:
(n.) An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty.
(n.) Specifically, a monarch, or other ruler or master, who uses power to oppress his subjects; a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice, or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the family Tyrannidae; -- called also tyrant bird.
(v. i.) To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
(2) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(3) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
(4) One of the two last strongholds of Gaddafi loyalists, the town of Bani Walid, has finally been contained, Libya's interim government has claimed, leaving only parts of the ousted tyrant's birthplace out of rebel reach.
(5) So long as tyrants and terrorists chase innocents around the globe, we must offer them refuge.
(6) Thinking the fatwa was little more than the empty threat of a faraway tyrant, Theroux called out to Rushdie: "Next week we'll be back here for you!"
(7) The phrase "time to water the tree of liberty" - a reference to a famous quotation from Thomas Jefferson, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" - is also frequently used by a right wing group called Stormfront , motto White Pride World Wide.
(8) Its words are an attack on tyrants and despots, and a call for liberty.
(9) He is a tyrant and he needs to be expelled from the newspaper."
(10) Other tyrants, including, Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein, appeared equally unconcerned about the ICC.
(11) Fearful of an imminent military breakthrough by Iran, the agency passed on Iranian troop positions to the Iraqi tyrant, " fully aware that Hussein's military would attack with chemical weapons, including sarin ".
(12) "The Tyrant's In His Pants," said the Sun's headline, while the Post opted for "Butcher of Sagdad" against an image of Hussein wearing nothing more than a pair of white Y-fronts.
(13) A toy autocracy may easily invite a real one; it was recently revealed that nuclear war would have made the monarch a genuine tyrant with the power to appoint a prime minister without an election, although it is hard to imagine Elizabeth II – with her rugs bearing a knitted royal crest, and her tiny dogs – as Gaius Julius Caesar.
(14) On the face of it, algorithms – "step-by-step procedures for calculations" – seem unlikely candidates for the role of tyrant.
(15) He might, according to people who know him, be a nerdy academic, but he was also a tyrant, according to Blanchflower , a “my way or the highway” boss who ran the place with an iron fist.
(16) If we’re supposed to become nails in the coffin of a tyrant, I’d like to become one of those nails.
(17) Devout Muslims consider it a sacrilege for infidels to depose a Muslim tyrant and occupy Muslim lands — no matter how well intentioned the infidels or malevolent the tyrant.
(18) Mobutu Nzanga said he is proud of his father, despite the commonly held view that he was a kleptocratic tyrant.
(19) The letter says : “As rabbis and cantors we regularly read the story of a band of refugees who escaped from a tyrant with only the clothes on their backs and a bit of flat bread.
(20) In a video posted on social media on Sunday, a man purporting to be Shekau addresses the “tyrants of Nigeria in particular and the west of Africa in general,” saying: “You broadcast the news and published it in your media outlets that you injured me and killed me, and here I am.” The speaker says: “I will not be killed until my time comes.” Last month, Nigeria’s air force said it had killed senior members of Boko Haram and that Shekau had been injured .