tyrannically

Example Sentences

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Young Haley tyrannically conducts “the boys” in “ ’Master Harold’…and the Boys” to reenact memories of his childhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025

Whether tenderly pursuing a new beau or tyrannically commanding a photoshoot, Smith imbues all of Mapplethorpe’s actions with pathos and intricacy.

From Slate • May 7, 2018

In November Mr Morales gave Bolivia’s highest honour to Teodoro Obiang, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea tyrannically for 38 years.

From Economist • Dec. 1, 2017

Early in the Golden Age of Hollywood, in 1937, two events underlined how tyrannically moguls would exercise authority over starlets.

From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2017

Something that was to be done and suffered seemed to lie far without; the object of their lives and souls, from which friends, parents, with their daily earth-customs, were tyrannically withholding them.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various