Crossword-Solution: TYRANNOUS 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Tyrannous a. Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic.

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Crushing the people. 1 answer
Unjustly severe 1 answer
despotic 44 answers
Arbitrary. 54 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TYRANNOUS (5)

And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased south along.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2006
There now! Now, in the first place dost thou know why I am come into this perilous and tyrannous land?" Said Redhead: "I have heard it said that thou art on the quest of the Well at the World's End." "And that is but the sooth," said Ralph.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008
Sometimes even now I may Steal a prisoner's holiday, Slip, when all is worst, the bands, Hurry back, and duck beneath Time's old tyrannous groping hands, Speed away with laughing breath Back to all I'll never know, Back to you, a year ago.
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke 1995
Yes, boy, we must be a law to ourselves and for ourselves and for our neighbours—lex armata—armed, emphatic, tyrannous law.
The Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1995
Few women venture to be democrats; the attitude of democratic champion is scarcely compatible with tyrannous feminine sway.
The Duchesse de Langeais Honore de Balzac 1996

Quotes with TYRANNOUS (3)

O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")
W. B. Yeats
It is ironic-rouse the limpest adjective-that a government as spontaneously tyrannous and callous as ours should, over the years, have come yo care so much about our health as it endlessly tests and retests commercial drugs available in other lands while arresting those who take "hard" drugs on the potential ground that they are bad for the user's health. One is touched by their concern- touched and dubious. After all, these same compassionate guardians of our well-being have…
Gore Vidal Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant(Isabella)
William Shakespeare Measure for Measure
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1963–1971).