tyrant
Example Sentences
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Instead, he learns the hard way that his downstairs neighbor is a tyrant.
The author is a fan of this feminist hero but acknowledges that Rankin was a family tyrant with a short fuse.
To mirror the real world, the Land of Sweets was not spared from an evil nutcracker tyrant.
From Los Angeles Times
But he was not a tyrant like some surgeons.
Just thirty-four, Castro had overthrown a corrupt tyrant and seized control of Cuba less than two years before.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
