Crossword-Solution: TYRANNICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tyrannical | a. | Of or pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly severe in government; absolute; imperious; despotic; cruel; arbitrary; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “TYRANNICAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Befitting a Nero. | 1 answer |
| Like a tyrant | 3 answers |
| Neronian | 3 answers |
| autarchic | 9 answers |
| Total-itarian? | 9 answers |
| NEEDING order | 17 answers |
| BROOKING no refusal | 18 answers |
| GIVING of order | 18 answers |
| LEAVING no option | 18 answers |
| Bullying | 31 answers |
| Bossy | 34 answers |
| Tyrant | 36 answers |
| authoritarian | 36 answers |
| Dictator | 40 answers |
| despotic | 44 answers |
| assertive | 46 answers |
| Domineering | 53 answers |
| overbearing | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with TYRANNICAL (5)
Instead of devoting countless hours, or the bulk of his research time, to gathering data concerning Virgil's use of words, DALY--now freed by PHI's Latin authors disk from the tyrannical, yet in some ways paradoxically happy scholarly drudgery-- would have been able to devote that same bulk of time to analyzing and interpreting Virgilian verbal usage.
Ford Douglass, concluded that the government had become so tyrannical that it was possible for him to engage in military action against it without his becoming a traitor to his country.
For the opposite reason, Prince John hated and contemned the few Saxon families of consequence which subsisted in England, and omitted no opportunity of mortifying and affronting them; being conscious that his person and pretensions were disliked by them, as well as by the greater part of the English commons, who feared farther innovation upon their rights and liberties, from a sovereign of John’s licentious and tyrannical disposition.
And the different forms of government make laws democratical, aristocratical, tyrannical, with a view to their several interests; and these laws, which are made by them for their own interests, are the justice which they deliver to their subjects, and him who transgresses them they punish as a breaker of the law, and unjust.
Esther was evidently much attached to Edward, and abhorred—as she had reason to do—the tyrannical and base behavior of old master.
Quotes with TYRANNICAL (3)
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and whi…
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.
The Awakening Land" p628 A strange, uneasy feeling ran over him. If he had been wrong about his mother in this, might he by any chance have been wrong in other things about her also? Could it be even faintly possible that the children of pioneers like himself, born under more benign conditions than their parents, hated them because they themselves were weaker, resented it when their parents expected them to be strong, and so invented all kinds of intricate reasoning to prove …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1958).