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slave driver
noun as in taskmaster
Strong match
Example Sentences
Colleagues describe Kashkari as sharp, meticulous, and something of a slave driver, despite having a lighthearted sense of humor.
No doubt you would give free play to the strap and the rawhide and other implements of the slave-driver.
Next came a swaggering bully of a slave-driver, evidently bred in the North.
She had in her beautiful kindness redeemed his soul from ignorance, as she had purchased his body from the slave-driver's lash.
This was a sight not new; but in their midst he caught a glimpse of a crested helmet and the black cloak of a slave-driver.
He neglected his carving, waged bloody battles with his fellow workmen, bullied Master Tobias like any slave-driver.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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