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tyrannical

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The Hunger Games franchise is already a deeply political saga, chronicling a growing rebellion against a tyrannical regime.

Mugabe, now 90, has remained in power ever since using increasingly tyrannical measures to maintain his regime.

Those facts, Paul said, indicated that Chairman Mao was a tyrannical monster whose people lived “in abject slavery.”

She was just doing what she could to survive under the tyrannical reign of Tywin.

He supplies a vivid picture of a tyrannical state that eradicated political opposition with chilling efficiency.

"Working men have been hit very hard by the tyrannical Budget," announces a morning paper.

These Fincastle Resolutions also included strong written opposition to English tyrannical power.

Scarborough drank more beer than he had done the day before, and was more tyrannical than ever.

For more than five years past war had been in the land, the struggle for freedom against a blind and tyrannical government.

Mean and tyrannical—those who deal with her, must be tools or enemies,—I choose the latter alternative.

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On this page you'll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tyrannical, such as: authoritarian, autocratic, brutal, cruel, dictatorial, and domineering.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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