Human rights groups, however, said the measures were “draconian” and counter-productive.
To Stop ISIS, Britain Is Set to Stop Free Speech|Nico Hines|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This photograph is a critique of how draconian the rules of society can be.
‘Gods of Suburbia’: Dina Goldstein’s Arresting Photo Series on Religion vs. Consumerism|Dina Goldstein|November 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A top National Institutes of Health official called the quarantines “draconian.”
Are Mandatory Ebola Quarantines Legal?|Tim Mak|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I fear the latter, given the draconian governmental measures over a single case, but time will tell.
It’s Not Time to Worry About China’s Plague Just Yet|Kent Sepkowitz|July 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Draconian punishments were meted out to supposed sinners and traitors.
Saddam’s Former Deputy, the Red Skull of Baghdad, Still at Large in Iraq and Allied With ISIS|Jacob Siegel, Christopher Dickey|July 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He read the sentence through three times, and then recollected that he had not looked up the Draconian reforms.
The Cruise of the Dazzler|Jack London
These Draconian rules obviate our degrading system of affiliation summonses.
The American Egypt|Channing Arnold
What shall we say of the ingenious system of penal laws, which, with Draconian cruelty, was enacted against Catholicity?
The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, January 1865|Various
Which was all very well, if he had only found out what the Draconian reforms were.
The Cruise of the Dazzler|Jack London
If there are exceptions who do not subscribe to these Draconian laws of the Parisian code, they are solitary examples.
Father Goriot|Honore de Balzac
British Dictionary definitions for Draconian
draconian
draconic (dreɪˈkɒnɪk)
/ (dreɪˈkəʊnɪən) /
adjective(sometimes capital)
of or relating to Draco, 7th-century Athenian statesman and lawmaker, or his code of laws, which prescribed death for almost every offence