be autocratic
Example Sentences
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I agree with many of Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant’s positions, but I find her to be autocratic and bombastic.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2021
If you can’t be autocratic at my age, when can you?
From The New Yorker • Jun. 3, 2019
“We’re trained to be autocratic and controlling,” Toussaint says.
From Time • Oct. 9, 2013
“It gave him a security from which he could create and be free, be autocratic, be inspiring, be demanding.”
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2012
We must not admit a 'conscience' or 'moral sense' which would be autocratic; nor, indeed, allow moral to have any meaning as applied to the separate passions.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
