tyrannical
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Tyrannical heat, delirious summers, dog days that breed flies and sloth, squabbles and morbid introspection are gone with the vent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tyrannical and cruel as the captain and first mate were, they proved themselves very far from being brave in the hour of danger.
From My First Voyage to Southern Seas by Pearse, Alfred
Tyrannical as was Henry�VIII., still he ever ruled by the laws.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by Lord, John
Tyrannical factions and warring creeds had set them at enmity with each other, and turned the sweetness and joy of their nature into gall and bitterness.
From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel
Which is not unlike the Old Tyrannical Axiom; Let my Friends perish, so my Enemies fall along with them.
From Franco-Gallia Or, An Account of the Ancient Free State of France, and Most Other Parts of Europe, Before the Loss of Their Liberties by Hotman, François
Vocabulary lists containing tyrannical
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry (1775)
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