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• s  marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
  tyrannous disregard of human rights

• Giuliano's father was Lorenzo the Magnificent, mighty patron of the arts and writer of bawdy ditties, a politically high-minded ruler whose actions were tyrannous.
• Victoria Van Bret (Mary Morris, malevolent Abbie in Desire Under the Elms, a tyrannous New York aristocrat of the celluloid collar era, dominates her half-brother Rip and her .
• To make art was to achieve a tyrannous freedom from self-explanation.

• oppressive
• tyrannical

News & Articles

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• Premier League Player Power Rankings: Luis Suarez Soars, Aaron Ramsey Falls
  Welcome to the latest edition of our Premier League player rankings! We have two new entries, a new No. 1 and, as is custom, a significant amount of movement among the top 10. Who replaces Aaron Ramsey and ends his long, tyrannous streak atop our table? Read on to find out! Any statistics are from  WhoScored.com . Begin Slideshow
  Dec. 11, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• William Shakespeare in Lexology (registration)
  When William Shakespeare wrote the words "O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength: but it is tyrannous to use it as a giant" in Measure for Measure, the complexities of competition law and market regulation could not have been further from...
• CS Lewis in OneNewsNow
  In his autobiography, CS Lewis describes a period in his life when be began to "broaden his mind." "I was soon altering 'I believe' to 'one does feel.' And oh, the relief of it!......From the tyrannous noon of revelation I passed into the...
• Gordon Brown in Mirror.co.uk
  Mr Brown said: "Facing one of the most tyrannous regimes in the world, she has demonstrated that courage by living under house arrest for most of the past two decades, far apart from the husband she loved, and from her beloved children, missing all...