Crossword-Solution: DESPOTS
We have 31 clues for the answer “DESPOTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, et al. | 1 answer |
| Wearers of iron heels. | 1 answer |
| Unilateral decision-makers | 1 answer |
| Unbending decision makers | 1 answer |
| Tyrannical sorts | 1 answer |
| Totalitarians | 1 answer |
| Strict taskmasters | 1 answer |
| Rulers without constitutions. | 1 answer |
| Repressive rulers | 1 answer |
| Overbearing rulers | 1 answer |
| Oppressive rulers | 1 answer |
| Oppressive ones | 1 answer |
| Ones unlikely to rule in your favor | 1 answer |
| Kim Jong-un and others | 1 answer |
| Iron-fisted rulers | 1 answer |
| Hitler et al. | 1 answer |
| Harsh rulers | 1 answer |
| Harsh bosses | 1 answer |
| Hard masters. | 1 answer |
| Coup targets | 1 answer |
| Caligula and Herod | 1 answer |
| Brutal rulers | 1 answer |
| Ivan et al. | 2 answers |
| Oppressors | 2 answers |
| Cruel rulers | 2 answers |
| Saddam et al. | 2 answers |
| Ones with iron hands | 2 answers |
| Tough bosses | 5 answers |
| Tyrants | 6 answers |
| Autocrats. | 7 answers |
| Dictators | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESPOTS (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.
CHAPTER 2—Domestic Despots Those who walk through the well-to-do quarters of our city, and glance, perhaps a little enviously as they pass, toward the cheerful firesides, do not reflect that in almost every one of these apparently happy homes a pitiless tyrant reigns, a misshapen monster without bowels of compassion or thought beyond its own greedy appetites, who sits like Sinbad’s awful burden on the necks of tender women and distracted men.
That is why despots in all ages and countries have assumed control of commerce; they wished to prevent the labor of their subjects from becoming an obstacle to the rapacity of tyrants.
But he was unable to gloat, was moved to pity, at sight of the physical and mental wreck in that chair which he had always seen occupied by the most robust of despots.
History exhibits many and greater despots than Ferdinand II., yet he alone has had the unfortunate celebrity of kindling a thirty years' war; but to produce its lamentable consequences, his ambition must have been seconded by a kindred spirit of the age, a congenial state of previous circumstances, and existing seeds of discord.
Quotes with DESPOTS (3)
There is no doubt that the United States has much to atone for, both domestically and abroad... To produce this horrible confection at home, start with our genocidal treatment of the Native Americans, add a couple hundred years of slavery, along with our denial of entry to Jewish refugees fleeing the death camps of the Third Reich, stir in our collusion with a long list of modern despots and our subsequent disregard for their appalling human rights records, add our bombing of…
Every form of human conflict may be reduced to precisely the same pattern of mental events. We are all totalitarian despots over our own thoughts, bound to keep our minds in complete control. Control requires security. Security demands war. All war is the macrocosmic residue of neural synapses struggling to maintain their rhythm.
The only way we can eliminate despots in this world, is not to be peaceful about it, for that has been the case for many people that has caused the upheaval of such tyranny, nor we should turn the other way, but we must take appropriate actions to eliminate the thriving forces of such darkness in our world.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 48 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).