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• s  marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
  a tyrannical parent
• s  characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty
  a tyrannical government

• Chiles accuses Wright and other Washington officials of wild Government spending, runaway regulation and tyrannical bureaucracy.
• It is not inevitable that his sister abandon her rebellious engagement to Charles and accede to the family's tyrannical belief system.
• The islands retained their own army and remained a tyrannical law unto themselves.

• oppressive
• tyrannous
• authoritarian
• autocratic
• dictatorial
• despotic
• tyrannic

News & Articles

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• Macomb coroner accused of running ‘tyrannical’ regime at morgue
  Macomb County coroner Dr. Daniel Spitz, by far the highest-paid county worker, is accused by his former colleagues of running a “tyrannical” regime at the county morgue and forcing out every member of the staff he inherited from his father, world-renowned medical examiner Dr. Werner Spitz.
  June 16, 2013 - The Oakland Press
• Time for Mugabe to go
    The violent, mismanaged and tyrannical rule of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe must end. As the opposition parties in the country unite to dig their heels in bracing to defend against another example of the blatant and rampant corruption that has engulfed Mugabe’s reign , which has lasted more than ...
  June 14, 2013 - Foreign Policy Blogs
• The Silver Cord
  Alternately hilarious and heart-stopping, Sidney Howard's 'The Silver Cord' tells the story of the sweetly tyrannical, Mrs. Phelps - the "mother of all mothers."
  June 11, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Sharron Angle in Washington Post
  Our Founding Fathers,says Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle, "they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason, and that was for the people to protect themselves against a tyrannical government. And in fact, Thomas...
• President Bush in Voice of America
  It's inexcusable that we've got this kind of tyrannical behavior in Asia. It's inexcusable that people who march for freedom are then treated by a repressive state,said Mr. Bush. "And those of us who live in comfort of a free society need...