tyrannically
Example Sentences
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Young Haley tyrannically conducts “the boys” in “ ’Master Harold’…and the Boys” to reenact memories of his childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
Whether tenderly pursuing a new beau or tyrannically commanding a photoshoot, Smith imbues all of Mapplethorpe’s actions with pathos and intricacy.
From Slate ● May 7, 2018
In November Mr Morales gave Bolivia’s highest honour to Teodoro Obiang, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea tyrannically for 38 years.
From Economist ● Dec. 1, 2017
Early in the Golden Age of Hollywood, in 1937, two events underlined how tyrannically moguls would exercise authority over starlets.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2017
The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
