tyrant
Example Sentences
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The author is a fan of this feminist hero but acknowledges that Rankin was a family tyrant with a short fuse.
To mirror the real world, the Land of Sweets was not spared from an evil nutcracker tyrant.
From Los Angeles Times
The threat came, he wrote, from men who “have begun their careers by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.”
From Washington Post
One of Trump’s most loyal supporters in Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, said, without citing evidence, that Trump was innocent and “the only one standing in the way of these modern day tyrants.”
From Washington Times
But for Rumble's supporters, such as Mr Nunes, who moved Truth Social across to Rumble's infrastructure last year, it means "we are not relying on any tech tyrants".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
