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
The war may be autocratic, dynastic, what you will; but it is also national, and it symbolizes the national defect.
From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various
