tyrannous
adjective
Example Sentences
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It seemed as if her gentleness, her patience, were converted into their opposites, which now ruled her tyrannously.
From Thyrza by George Gissing
A fearful power, is it not, and fatal, if used tyrannously?
From Sword and Gown A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
But what scarcely admits of denial or discussion is that it is tyrannously too long.
From Parisians in the Country by James Waring
There are no such brief days as those that are indistinct; and the sliding on the way of time is, of all habits, the most tyrannously careless.
From Ceres' Runaway and Other Essays by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature; and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, diking, building, without fear or shame.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
