tyrannous
adjective
Example Sentences
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Playgoers have a giant's strength in this respect; but it must be said for them, that of late years at any rate, they have rarely used it tyrannously, like a giant.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
It seemed as if her gentleness, her patience, were converted into their opposites, which now ruled her tyrannously.
From Thyrza by George Gissing
And to make short of this linage, there was 15 kinges, and reigned 176 yeares; against the last of them, who was called Quioutey, there did arise against him tyrannously Tzobu.
From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza
The Saxon was as good as his word; and after an early dinner, at which I tyrannously curtailed my friend of his usual allowance of liquor, we made our way to the Jonesian habitation.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
In private, she was tyrannously exacting with the servants, and spiteful, rather mean with her motherless nieces.
From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
