tyrant
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈtaɪrənt/
- Offensive
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tirano
- Throughout history, people have struggled against tyrants who crush freedom and impose their will.
- dictators and tyrants
- great tyrants
When they're in power, they're a tyrant, they're a dictator.
- When they're in power, they're a tyrant, they're a dictator.
- She was such a tyrant, rude to everyone.
- Like your previously addicted self was the tyrant over your emergent self.
- If you don't provide yourself with direction, you will take direction from a tyrant, right?
- And what I do here instead as well, we, we got rid of a tyrant, Saddam Hussein.
- Kim Jong Un is a tyrant and a sadist.
- But that tyranny has two elements, say, because the Pharaoh is a tyrant, but the Israelites are slaves.
- You be a good father to everyone, not the tyrant that resentment breeds in your own heart.
- He is a narcissist, he's a tyrant.
- But the things we learn from these tyrants apply even to us regular folks.
- It's more powerful than violence and that means the tyrants have to tremble.
- And all of those tyrants use religion to be tyrannical with.
- And he says, you know, self-control is not that difficult, even tyrants, some tyrants.
Examples
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Meanwhile, the tyrant succumbs to appetite and acts unjustly.
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We are looking for men who are brave enough to stand up to this tyrant.
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The days of the tyrant are numbered.
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Instead, he is feared as a tyrant by his community and his own family.
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But even the most horrid tyrant cannot rule alone.
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But the things we learn from these tyrants apply even to us regular folks.
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You don't owe tribute to some tyrant across the sea.
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What you don't know is that to his family, he was an unmerciful tyrant.
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And when they got rid of the tyrant called Saddam Hussein a tyrant, we then have anarchy.
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Benjamin Franklin said that in particularly, he said that rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Synonyms
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4.2
A ruler with complete power who often takes control by force and ignores the law
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7.7
A military leader who controls a region by force and answers to no one when the government is weak
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7.5
A person who has power and treats people cruelly or unfairly
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7.7
A ruler who has all power and treats people cruelly
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8.3
A ruler who has all power and treats people cruelly
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7.4
A male political leader who keeps power by using force and fear
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8.2
A person who expects people to follow orders and allows little freedom
Antonyms
Compounds
How Tyrannical
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tyrant began as a name for those rulers and today means a person who uses power in a cruel or oppressive way, and you can see the same root in tyranny, which means 'cruel rule'.