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tyrannous

/tir-uh-nuhs/US // ˈtɪr ə nəs //

暴虐的,暴虐,暴戾的,暴戾

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tyrannical.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Her nerves and blood were troubled again by the ungovernable, tyrannous impulse of her power.

  • We all know that if they got the upper hand they would be far more cruel and more tyrannous than the whites have been.

  • Propensities, tendencies, habits, were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendency.

  • If the tyrannous day of our fathers had but possessed the means of these our more diffident times!

  • You would, then, naturally imagine that the persons who made this abominable system had also made some tyrannous use of it.