tyrannicaladjective
uk/tɪˈræn.ɪ.kəl/us/tɪˈræn.ɪ.kəl/using, showing, or relating to the unfair and cruel use of power over other people in a country, group, etc.:
a tyrannical leader/regime/political system
In the end she left home just to escape the tyrannical rule of her mother.
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
- Dem
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- imperialism
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- patriarchy
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
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tyrannically
adverb uk/tɪˈræn.ɪ.kəl.i/us/tɪˈræn.ɪ.kəl.i/