tyrannic

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The tsars’ successors, the Soviets, proclaimed lofty ideals but in governing such a vast land they, too, became consumed by the tyrannic paranoia that plagued their forebears.

From Economist • Aug. 18, 2016

The U.S. general in charge of the case admits Cargill's difficulties; but, somewhat like Captain Vere in Melville's Billy Budd, he sets law. however tyrannic, above lawbreaking, however understandable.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was a widow and a man-grabber; she still had a tyrannic beauty and a greed of conquest.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry

Yet those commands, however arbitrary and unfeeling, were more supportable than those with which, after every other source of tyrannic authority had been drained, the day was ordinarily concluded.

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

He anchors his yacht in the middle of the Thames—as if the tyrannic authorities of the Port of London would ever allow a yacht, or any other craft, to anchor in midstream!

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin