dictatorially
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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It’s not simply that the targets — dictatorially conformist parents, a milquetoast yet nevertheless controlling husband, grotesquely sexist colleagues and a bullying surrogate mother-in-law — are cartoonishly drawn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
After seizing control in Indonesia, Suharto ruled dictatorially for 30 more years.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2020
Surprising factoid: Though most famous for his declaration, “Live long and prosper,” Spock of “Star Trek” once said, less dictatorially, “There are always possibilities.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2016
The studio system arose, concentrating filmmaking in a handful of dictatorially efficient corporations employing thousands and turning out movies at a tremendous rate.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2012
Governments become, or like to call themselves, "benevolent despotisms," and instead of starving their subjects look carefully, if somewhat dictatorially, to their material prosperity.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd
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