adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a tyrannical boss
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a tyrannical regime
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Lewis was a tyrannical boss who frightened and humiliated his employees.
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Thousands of refugees fled the tyrannical regime in search of political freedom.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Adrian, the tyrannical waitress in a foreign country, had them all spellbound.
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Dennis Quaid is the doughty knight, Bowen, battling David Thewlis' tyrannical king.
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He never asked if she remembered his tyrannical parenting.
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It was this last, clearly tyrannical , action which stirred Anselm to take the only countervailing measure open to him.
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Some people felt that machines exercised a new kind of tyrannical power over them.
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Some treated their staff in a high-handed and tyrannical way.