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Tyrannical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly severe in government; absolute; imperious; despotic; cruel; arbitrary; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The former SAS officer was helping organise a coup plot against the tyrannical President Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, and Mark was anxious to join in.
  • (2) Lupita Nyong'o was shortlisted for the best supporting actress prize for her turn as an abused slave, while Michael Fassbender joined the best supporting actor race as a tyrannical plantation owner.
  • (3) There must be no compromise with Eritrea's tyrannical Afewerki regime Read more In the view of Neven Mimica, the EU commissioner for international cooperation and development, the package will help to tackle the root causes of migration from Eritrea.
  • (4) The Walworth Farce, which opens at the National Theatre next week, focuses on a tyrannical Irishman who has kept his two sons locked in a decrepit flat since the trio arrived in London almost two decades before.
  • (5) The actions of the police are showing the public what a tyrannical government looks like,” said Bonnie Leung, 27.
  • (6) Before taking over the wildlife refuge, Ritzheimer – like other extremists before him – posted a “goodbye” video for his family rationalizing his actions as defending freedom against a “tyrannical government”.
  • (7) All tyrants believe they are driven by a core Goodness, but that doesn't make them any less tyrannical.
  • (8) He says he was tortured at a site in the airport grounds and then sent to Libya , where Gaddafi had long seen him as one of the biggest threats to his tyrannical four-decade rule.
  • (9) On big issues it might be good, but on small ones it's tyrannical.
  • (10) Oh God, deal with the usurpers and oppressors and tyrannical Jews.
  • (11) At the core of many of the complaints is the belief that these entertainment spectaculars are tyrannical in their inflexibility.
  • (12) Some people say good things, some people say bad things … that’s history, and I would never use any kind of legal process like to try to suppress it.” Wales, who founded Wikipedia in 2001, has been outspoken against the right to be forgotten, frequently describing it as “censorship” and “tyrannical”.
  • (13) Tantawi then tried but failed to placate his critics by demanding that Israel end tyrannical practices against the Palestinians.
  • (14) Social structure (hierarchy) was studied by the intruder method and social function (peaceful or tyrannic hierarchy) by inspection of the subordinate voles for wounds.
  • (15) The pavilion itself, a power-temple designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer in 1938, acts as a tyrannical shell for a reconstruction of the Kanzlerbungalow, or Chancellor's Bungalow, built in Bonn in 1964 by modernist architect Sep Ruf.
  • (16) What would any tyrannical regime possessing WMD think viewing the history of the world's diplomatic dance with Saddam?
  • (17) In a country where power in the workplace has shifted so decisively towards employers – benevolent or tyrannical, it’s the luck of the draw – you can see why self-employment is almost a refuge for many.
  • (18) Yet, to make this thing happen, 250 homes were demolished and families were forcibly evicted , the project tarnished by the tyrannical regime’s catalogue of human rights abuses – a factor that has since plagued Hadid’s other projects, including the World Cup stadium in Qatar.
  • (19) During his tyrannical rule, Gaddafi turned what was a sleepy coastal village into a town of garish concrete, hoping to fulfill a megalomaniac dream to make it the capital of a United States of Africa.
  • (20) Here were states whose leadership cared for no-one but themselves; were often cruel and tyrannical towards their own people; and who saw WMD as a means of defending themselves against any attempt external or internal to remove them and who, in their chaotic and corrupt state, were in any event porous and irresponsible with neither the will nor capability to prevent terrorists who also hated the West, from exploiting their chaos and corruption.

Tyrannous


Definition:

  • (a.) Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The former SAS officer was helping organise a coup plot against the tyrannical President Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, and Mark was anxious to join in.
  • (2) Lupita Nyong'o was shortlisted for the best supporting actress prize for her turn as an abused slave, while Michael Fassbender joined the best supporting actor race as a tyrannical plantation owner.
  • (3) There must be no compromise with Eritrea's tyrannical Afewerki regime Read more In the view of Neven Mimica, the EU commissioner for international cooperation and development, the package will help to tackle the root causes of migration from Eritrea.
  • (4) The Walworth Farce, which opens at the National Theatre next week, focuses on a tyrannical Irishman who has kept his two sons locked in a decrepit flat since the trio arrived in London almost two decades before.
  • (5) The actions of the police are showing the public what a tyrannical government looks like,” said Bonnie Leung, 27.
  • (6) Before taking over the wildlife refuge, Ritzheimer – like other extremists before him – posted a “goodbye” video for his family rationalizing his actions as defending freedom against a “tyrannical government”.
  • (7) All tyrants believe they are driven by a core Goodness, but that doesn't make them any less tyrannical.
  • (8) He says he was tortured at a site in the airport grounds and then sent to Libya , where Gaddafi had long seen him as one of the biggest threats to his tyrannical four-decade rule.
  • (9) On big issues it might be good, but on small ones it's tyrannical.
  • (10) Oh God, deal with the usurpers and oppressors and tyrannical Jews.
  • (11) At the core of many of the complaints is the belief that these entertainment spectaculars are tyrannical in their inflexibility.
  • (12) Some people say good things, some people say bad things … that’s history, and I would never use any kind of legal process like to try to suppress it.” Wales, who founded Wikipedia in 2001, has been outspoken against the right to be forgotten, frequently describing it as “censorship” and “tyrannical”.
  • (13) Tantawi then tried but failed to placate his critics by demanding that Israel end tyrannical practices against the Palestinians.
  • (14) Social structure (hierarchy) was studied by the intruder method and social function (peaceful or tyrannic hierarchy) by inspection of the subordinate voles for wounds.
  • (15) The pavilion itself, a power-temple designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer in 1938, acts as a tyrannical shell for a reconstruction of the Kanzlerbungalow, or Chancellor's Bungalow, built in Bonn in 1964 by modernist architect Sep Ruf.
  • (16) What would any tyrannical regime possessing WMD think viewing the history of the world's diplomatic dance with Saddam?
  • (17) In a country where power in the workplace has shifted so decisively towards employers – benevolent or tyrannical, it’s the luck of the draw – you can see why self-employment is almost a refuge for many.
  • (18) Yet, to make this thing happen, 250 homes were demolished and families were forcibly evicted , the project tarnished by the tyrannical regime’s catalogue of human rights abuses – a factor that has since plagued Hadid’s other projects, including the World Cup stadium in Qatar.
  • (19) During his tyrannical rule, Gaddafi turned what was a sleepy coastal village into a town of garish concrete, hoping to fulfill a megalomaniac dream to make it the capital of a United States of Africa.
  • (20) Here were states whose leadership cared for no-one but themselves; were often cruel and tyrannical towards their own people; and who saw WMD as a means of defending themselves against any attempt external or internal to remove them and who, in their chaotic and corrupt state, were in any event porous and irresponsible with neither the will nor capability to prevent terrorists who also hated the West, from exploiting their chaos and corruption.

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