Crossword-Solution: DESPOTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Despotic | a. | Alt. of Despotical |
We have 34 clues for the answer “DESPOTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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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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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.
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.
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.
Silberstadt is a perfectly despotic little state, and the Reigning Prince may annul the marriage by a stroke of his pen.
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.
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…
… 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.
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…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1984–2019).