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tyrant

/tahy-ruhnt/US // ˈtaɪ rənt //UK // (ˈtaɪrənt) //

僭主,霸王,暴君,霸主

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly.
    • : any person in a position of authority who exercises power oppressively or despotically.
    • : a tyrannical or compulsory influence.
    • : an absolute ruler, especially one in ancient Greece or Sicily.

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Examples

  • You can do the right thing for once in your lives and discharge this petty tyrant.

  • The refugee parent fleeing from the tyrant regime loses family all at once, in the space of a five-hour flight to Qatar.

  • State actors who reflect the real world are “criminals” who are “lying” and equivalent to tyrants and dictators.

  • He later said he was terrible at the job, perpetually frightened by his boss, who “behaved like a tyrant on the set.”

  • SovCits believe the feds are illegitimate tyrants who trick us into giving away our freedom by signing official documents.

  • Twelve-year-old dance prodigy Maddie Ziegler has suffered the wrath of Dance Moms tyrant Abby Lee Miller.

  • On Christmas weekend, a North Korean tyrant has decided what American teenagers will see on the silver screen.

  • After clashing with coach Victor Tikhonov, a KGB-installed tyrant, he chose to challenge the government and defect to the NHL.

  • Rivers continued on her political, authoritarian monologue by describing what kind of tyrant she would be.

  • And that isn't even the biggest political problem with Tyrant.

  • In the meantime, the outlaw, having observed how much more cordially the tyrant is received than himself, has made his exit.

  • To remove a tyrant is an act of liberation, the giving of life and opportunity to an oppressed people.

  • The removal of a tyrant is not merely justifiable; it is the highest duty of every true revolutionist.

  • But the killing of a tyrant, of an enemy of the People, is in no way to be considered as the taking of a life.

  • The superstitious tyrant Maximin endeavoured to revive the dying paganism, and to renew the persecution.