despotic
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Despotic regimes have their own way of holding rulers accountable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
The spectacle spooled out like something straight out of theatrical drama or, perhaps more appropriately, a cheesy movie: Despotic ruler sinks deeper into madness as his nation falls apart around him.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021
Benjamin Franklin even went so far as to predict that “the people shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.”
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2016
"Despotic: implies the arbitrary . . . exercise of absolute power."
From Time Magazine Archive
Despotic even in his villainies, he keeps the planning to himself, for he has secrets even Roblez must not know.
From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne
Vocabulary lists containing despotic
The Scarlet Letter
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Grade 11, List 6
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"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
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