tyrannical
adjective
of or characteristic of a tyrant.
tyrannically
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a word derived from
tyrannical.
Example Sentences
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Young Haley tyrannically conducts “the boys” in “ ’Master Harold’…and the Boys” to reenact memories of his childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
In November Mr Morales gave Bolivia’s highest honour to Teodoro Obiang, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea tyrannically for 38 years.
From Economist ● Dec. 1, 2017
Early in the Golden Age of Hollywood, in 1937, two events underlined how tyrannically moguls would exercise authority over starlets.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2017
Sure, with most clients you can make mailbox rules or filters to weed people out, but SlateMail reduces that command to a single keystroke, and that makes me feel tyrannically powerful.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2015
Something that was to be done and suffered seemed to lie far without; the object of their lives and souls, from which friends, parents, with their daily earth-customs, were tyrannically withholding them.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
