dictator
Example Sentences
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Clad in a black leather trench coat, the 42-year-old dictator twirled a cigarette as he reviewed lines of factory employees.
Iraq was a state with deep sectarian divisions that was largely dominated by a single dictator: Saddam Hussein.
From Los Angeles Times
Khomeini, then 76, needed a new bolthole after being expelled from his exiled base in the Iraqi city of Najaf by the country's dictator Saddam Hussein.
From Barron's
For years, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein sealed off Iranian influence in his country, viewing Tehran as a threat.
From Los Angeles Times
She’s the daughter of Kim Jong Un, the third-generation leader of North Korea—and the only one of the dictator’s children to have ever been shown in public.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
