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tyrannical

/ti-ran-i-kuhl, tahy-/US // tɪˈræn ɪ kəl, taɪ- //UK // (tɪˈrænɪkəl) //

暴虐的,暴虐,暴政,专制

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or characteristic of a tyrant.
    • : unjustly cruel, harsh, or severe; arbitrary or oppressive; despotic: a tyrannical ruler.

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Examples

  • Ironically, its members—a group of eastern North Carolina yeomen—believed themselves to be responding to a tyrannical conspiracy against Protestant liberty, and in resistance against forced military service.

  • Realizing how short life is, lots of employees are opting to leave their job rather than endure the low pay or a tyrannical supervisor — or both.

  • He has shaken up the British establishment with his radical acts of civil disobedience, aggressively pushed for change in global attitudes about homosexuality, and stood up against tyrannical world leaders – and he’s done it all from the front lines.

  • It is no accident that the initial discussions about overthrowing Michigan’s so-called tyrannical governor started at a Second Amendment rally in June.

  • The Hunger Games franchise is already a deeply political saga, chronicling a growing rebellion against a tyrannical regime.

  • Mugabe, now 90, has remained in power ever since using increasingly tyrannical measures to maintain his regime.

  • Those facts, Paul said, indicated that Chairman Mao was a tyrannical monster whose people lived “in abject slavery.”

  • She was just doing what she could to survive under the tyrannical reign of Tywin.

  • He supplies a vivid picture of a tyrannical state that eradicated political opposition with chilling efficiency.

  • "Working men have been hit very hard by the tyrannical Budget," announces a morning paper.

  • These Fincastle Resolutions also included strong written opposition to English tyrannical power.

  • Scarborough drank more beer than he had done the day before, and was more tyrannical than ever.

  • For more than five years past war had been in the land, the struggle for freedom against a blind and tyrannical government.

  • Mean and tyrannical—those who deal with her, must be tools or enemies,—I choose the latter alternative.