Mussolini

[moos-uh-lee-nee, moo-suh-, moos-saw-lee-nee]

noun

1. Benito Il Duce, 1883–1945, Italian Fascist leader: premier of Italy 1922–43.

Mussolini

/ ˌmʊsəˈliːnɪ, mussoˈliːni /

noun

1. Benito (beˈniːto) known as il Duce. 1883–1945, Italian Fascist dictator. After the Fascist march on Rome, he was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III (1922) and assumed dictatorial powers. He annexed Abyssinia and allied Italy with Germany (1936), entering World War II in 1940. He was forced to resign following the Allied invasion of Sicily (1943) and was eventually shot by Italian partisans

Example Sentences

Therein lies a dilemma, because Franco was not an especially compelling orator or a magnetic, mercurial personality after the fashion of Hitler, Mussolini and, you know, others we could name.

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It is a backward-looking symbol of violence and authority that aligns his regime with its predecessors in Napoleonic France — and the modern fascist regimes of Franco and Mussolini.

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Having grown up in Mussolini’s Italy, Eco presumably knew what he was talking about.

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In Europe, it was fought against Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler, a tyrant and true monster, and against Italy and Benito Mussolini, a clownish but vile Fascist.

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Here’s an idea of how crazy this film is: It hires someone to play Benito Mussolini, yet he’s the most restrained performer in the cast.

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