Adjective : a tyrannical ruler. From Dictionary.com.
The words he chose were very long and took up the whole line, and he evinced a marked partiality for such expressions as "tyrannically,". From Wordnik.com. [The Fat and the Thin] Reference
Oscar to walk daily, and watched him tyrannically. From Wordnik.com. [A Start in Life] Reference
I have been always tyrannically held down by the strong hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
She blamed Sally for behaving tyrannically to a man who loves her. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Tyrants behave more tyrannically the more they fear those around them. From Wordnik.com. [Fear Makes The World Go Round] Reference
The state may very well behave tyrannically without a hint of socialism. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
And why is it so obviously and tyrannically omnipresent in our own experience?. From Wordnik.com. [The Illusion of Time] Reference
For this Manco Ccapac was more hard upon them, and oppressed them tyrannically. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
Eventually, almost all tyrannically negative table-monsters grow up and eat salad. From Wordnik.com. [Playing With Their Food] Reference
They who have proudly and tyrannically governed shall one day render their account to. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
The whole man, mind and body, having come to an agreement, tyrannically dictates conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
They used their power tyrannically, and faction and feuds raged through all the townships. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
She was moreover bound to acknowledge that M. de Charlus was tyrannically present at all their meetings. From Wordnik.com. [The Captive] Reference
Germany at once the most Socialistic and at the same time the most tyrannically ruled country in the world. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
But in the last thirty years, Iranians have experienced an archaic system of theocracy tyrannically take hold. From Wordnik.com. [Reza Pahlavi: Cries for Democracy in Iran] Reference
Throughout all the period of her supremacy, Sparta dealt selfishly and tyrannically with the other Grecian states. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Nasser coined the slogan "Freedom of Expression is the first introduction to Democracy" while he was ruling tyrannically. From Wordnik.com. [Monday, February 28, 2005] Reference
Here and there an individual may be found who, being entrusted with an irresponsible power, would not desire to use it tyrannically. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
For this reason Ccapac Yupanqui was not the legitimate heir, although he tyrannically forced his brothers to swear allegiance to him. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
“What the devil is all this for?” said Candide, “and what demon, or foe of mankind, lords it thus tyrannically over the world?”. From Wordnik.com. [Candide] Reference
Elingue, he who was left king of those kingdoms which the Christians had tyrannically seized and provoked to rise in the present rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
But though an absolute prince, still he dare not rule tyrannically: he must rule justly, and in accordance with the ancient customs and laws. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The reason you had this incredibly tyrannically repressive security apparatus was in order to suppress the proper feelings of the people there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2003] Reference
And if they're going to tyrannically saddle us with that kind of debt, the least they could do is just cut each taxpayer a check for that amount. From Wordnik.com. ["Barack Obama's temperament is famously unflappable."] Reference
It is the power which the House of Commons has enjoyed for centuries, which it has frequently asserted and sometimes even tyrannically exercised. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
The press is filled with horror stories about tyrannically demanding "little emperors" and the slavishly devoted parents who fail to control them. From Wordnik.com. [Murder At the Drum Tower] Reference
There was every crime which men could commit in revenge who had been governed not wisely, but tyrannically, and now had the oppressor at their mercy. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
That man, for the rest of his life, inveighed against the petty and mischievous interference with private industry tyrannically waged by public bodies. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
The government is not necessarily acting tyrannically if it tries to set the default close to the choice people would make in the ideal, infinite-time world. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics] Reference
By saying that you force me, half tyrannically, to assume a role of affection, and I am compelled to say from sheer coquetry: 'Ah, Geert, then I shall never go.'. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
There was no one faculty predominating tyrannically over the others; all seemed proportioned in the felicitous symmetry of a nature rounded, integral, and complete. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
The liberal position is that it is better for people of color to be ruled tyrannically by people of their own color than to be ruled prudently by people of another color. From Wordnik.com. ["Is it possible that there might be something really ugly at the core of contemporary liberalism?"] Reference
Second, given cultural, linguistic, and often religious difference, European colonists were unlikely to sympathize with the native peoples and more likely to act tyrannically. From Wordnik.com. [Colonialism] Reference
Is it unfair to infer that her virtue is built on narrow views and selfishness, who can caress a man, with true feminine softness, the very moment when he treats her tyrannically?. From Wordnik.com. [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
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