Crossword-Solution: DESPOTIC 8 letters, 34 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Despotic a. Alt. of Despotical

We have 34 clues for the answer “DESPOTIC”

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Wielding absolute power 1 answer
Uncomfortable with argumentation 1 answer
Like Stalin 1 answer
Like an autocrat 1 answer
Tyrannous 2 answers
Kind of ruler 2 answers
Unusually harsh 2 answers
undemocratic 3 answers
Governessy 6 answers
discretionary 7 answers
autarchic 9 answers
Total-itarian? 9 answers
A TYRANNICAL PARENT 10 answers
unsparing 13 answers
extortionate 32 answers
Bossy 34 answers
authoritarian 36 answers
Masterful 36 answers
Tyrant 36 answers
Dictator 40 answers
Tyrannical 41 answers
lordly 43 answers
grasping 48 answers
Domineering 53 answers
Arbitrary. 54 answers
Lawless 55 answers
relentless 57 answers
unmerciful 59 answers
uncharitable 61 answers
Imperious 67 answers
autocratic 68 answers
Capricious 70 answers
dictatorial 71 answers
Unkind 73 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DESPOTIC (5)

The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as frequently it awards more than justice, when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Thus trained in the exercise not only of free will, but despotic authority, Rowena was, by her previous education, disposed both to resist and to resent any attempt to control her affections, or dispose of her hand contrary to her inclinations, and to assert her independence in a case in which even those females who have been trained up to obedience and subjection, are not infrequently apt to dispute the authority of guardians and parents.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
The Civil Rights Bill and the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill and the proposed constitutional amendments, with the amendment already adopted and recognized as the law of the land, do not reach the difficulty, and cannot, unless the whole structure of the government is changed from a government by States to something like a despotic central government, with power to control even the municipal regulations of States, and to make them conform to its own despotic will.
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1994
Silberstadt is a perfectly despotic little state, and the Reigning Prince may annul the marriage by a stroke of his pen.
The Europeans Henry James 1994
The Civil Rights Bill and the Freedmen's Bureau Bill and the proposed constitutional amendments, with the amendment already adopted and recognized as the law of the land, do not reach the difficulty, and cannot, unless the whole structure of the government is changed from a government by States to something like a despotic central government, with power to control even the municipal regulations of States, and to make them conform to its own despotic will.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008

Quotes with DESPOTIC (3)

The greatest book in the world, the Mahabharata, tells us we all have to live and die by our karmic cycle. Thus works the perfect reward-and-punishment, cause-and-effect, code of the universe. We live out in our present life what we wrote out in our last. But the great moral thriller also orders us to rage against karma and its despotic dictates. It teaches us to subvert it. To change it. It tells us we also write out our next lives as we live out our present. The Mahabharata…
Tarun J. Tejpal The Alchemy of Desire
… I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people … are the safeguard to the continuance of a free government … whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.
General Robert E. Lee
Such is the control, and such the public mentality, enjoyed by the Swedish planners. The rulers of the Soviet Union, although favoured by despotic power, are not so fortunate. Obstructively resentful of officialdom, the Russian, in the words of the Spanish saying, has always known how orders are 'to be obeyed but not carried out'. To the Swede, that sort of compromise is downright immoral. His elected leaders have received those political blessings denied the autocrats in the…
Roland Huntford The New Totalitarians
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