dictatorial
Example Sentences
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The AAU’s dictatorial control forced athletes into penury and enriched its leaders.
How can such a playful fellow have dictatorial aspirations?!
From Los Angeles Times
Away from the praise and the bright lights, however, members of the congregation described Brain as "manipulative and dictatorial".
From BBC
Cyber Partisans describes itsself as "a highly organised hacktivist collective that is fighting for the liberation of Belarus from dictatorial rule".
From BBC
Based on descriptions of dictatorial regimes over the past century, the distinction seems to be this: Totalitarianism is authoritarianism intensified.
From Salon
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