despot
Example Sentences
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We have propped up puppets and despots and taken down democratically elected governments with the regularity of the seasons.
From Los Angeles Times
We aren’t in danger of being taken over by a despot.
From Salon
Our America is not ruled by a petty, vindictive despot wannabe with an outrageous history of criminal and socially abhorrent behavior who imagines he is king.
From Salon
Equally, they are tools for establishing superstitions, glorifying despots and dignifying atrocity.
The Uzbek despot distinguished himself by “boiling his enemies, slaughtering his poverty-stricken people when they protest, and conscripting armies of children for slave labour,” according to The Guardian.
From Salon
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