usurper 的定义
- someone who seizes an office or position of power by force or without legal right, or who is perceived to have done so: The usurper Vitigis gathered his army together and laid siege to Rome.
usurper 近义词
等同于 strongman
等同于 dictator
更多usurper例句
- This usurper showed a better understanding of why ladybirds were different colors and jumped from 5th to 1st position during February.
- Some weeks ago, when the United States was contending with its own insurrection, I discussed the nature of coups d’etat and how, last century, usurpers tended to seize TV stations before storming presidential palaces.
- The nimblest usurpers snatch power before anyone knows what has happened.
- Branded a usurper, Bruce had been excommunicated by the Vatican.
- Or because he supported the deposed King Richard II rather than the usurper Henry Bolingbroke?
- This emboldened him to add “the usurper that is in the White House … B. Hussein Obama” to the list said in his church on Sundays.
- He has been offering “imprecatory prayers” against “the usurper that is in the White House…B. Hussein Obama.”
- To sum the whole matter, the Britisher is an odious usurper “who has always got one eye open.”
- If reason is to rule, the usurper, religion, must be ejected; hence atheism was fundamental to his entire system.
- And when they were through, the King (for all he was a rank usurper) spoke them fair, and gave each man three guineas in his hand.
- The circumstances were propitious to the designs of a usurper.
- This scandalous outrage was soon reported at Rome, and the sacrilegious usurper was excommunicated and banished.