police state

NOUN

totalitarian rule

Synonyms

WEAK

brute force despotism rule of terror totalitarian government totalitarian regime totalitarianism

Example Sentences

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This may not yet fit the technical definition of a police state, but it’s sure beginning to look like one.

From Salon

What better way to demonstrate our new constitution-shredding, authoritarian police state?

From Salon

If all of the parts of this order are successful, they would also usher in pathways to a police state.

From Salon

"Civil war is inevitable" … "Britain is going full Stalin"… "The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state".

From BBC

Trump’s language is designed to fracture the civic contract, pit citizens against each other, create the conditions for civil war, and pave the way for a society ruled by fear and a police state.

From Salon