Thesaurus / despotic
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The joint winners are a pair of journalists known as the bête noirs of two of the world’s most despotic, democratically elected leaders.
THE 2021 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IS A MASSIVE ‘FUCK YOU’ TO PUTIN AND DUTERTENICO HINESOCTOBER 8, 2021THE DAILY BEASTThe most extraordinary and despotic measures were adopted by acclamation to meet the fearful emergency.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTThe manhood of Homestead rebelled: the millmen scorned the despotic ultimatum.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANFascination is despotic; beauty is something more tangible and independent of opinion.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYREHumble as Lecamus seemed to the outer world, he was despotic in his own home; there he was an autocrat.
CATHERINE DE' MEDICIHONORE DE BALZACEach sect has endeavored to make its God a monarch the most redoubtable, the greatest, the most despotic, and the most selfish.
LETTERS TO EUGENIAPAUL HENRI THIRY HOLBACHMazzini carefully dissociated himself alike from the laissez-faire school and a despotic state socialism.
THE LIFE OF MAZZINIBOLTON KINGThey already furnish an exhilarating example of the difference between free governments and despotic misrule.
SELECT SPEECHES OF DANIEL WEBSTERDANIEL WEBSTERPaternal government, says the argument, works well; therefore, despotic government in a state will work well.
A SYSTEM OF LOGIC: RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVEJOHN STUART MILLBut love took possession of me as a passion, the mean, despotic passion which comes over some old men.
HONORINEHONORE DE BALZACWORDS RELATED TO DESPOTIC
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