tyrannic

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The tsars’ successors, the Soviets, proclaimed lofty ideals but in governing such a vast land they, too, became consumed by the tyrannic paranoia that plagued their forebears.

From Economist • Aug. 18, 2016

The U.S. general in charge of the case admits Cargill's difficulties; but, somewhat like Captain Vere in Melville's Billy Budd, he sets law. however tyrannic, above lawbreaking, however understandable.

From Time Magazine Archive

European topic still has its place, and Louis Napoleon with his adroit but tyrannic manœuvres, fills up a large space of the talk.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by

One can almost believe so; for tyrannic government came in with the Austrian, who ruled here because of Don Juan's death.

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle

We are all subject to the tyrannic sway of imagination’s empire.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)