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tyranny
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  • It has been horrid---the tyranny we've suffered at the hands of that woman!  (source)
    tyranny = harsh and unjust rule
  • Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny.†  (source)
  • That is the other side of selflessness: its tyranny.†  (source)
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  • Evans raised a fist and shouted at the crowd, "Eliminate human tyranny!"†  (source)
  • Liesel only knew that Arthur Berg did not have a tyrannical bone in his body, whereas the new leader had hundreds of them.†  (source)
    tyrannical = harsh and unjust
  • The police had questioned him several times, and just a few days before, he had heard that an influential acquaintance, a Mr Tanaka a retired officer of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamship line, an anti-Christian, a man famous in Hiroshima for his showy philanthropies and notorious for his personal tyrannies, had been telling people that Tanimoto should not be trusted.†  (source)
  • You, my Lord, In being with us, would fight a good stroke At once, for England and for Home, Ending the tyrannous jurisdiction Of king's court over bishop's court, Of king's court over baron's court.†  (source)
  • He says I have tyrannized over everyone.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • There was bad luck even in the weather, which turned cool and rainy toward the last; and rather than stay in where she could lay hands on me and carry on and tyrannize, I stuck around the amusement park at Silver Beach, where the seats of the Ferris wheel were covered, getting blackened, and I got soaked through my raincoat (from the old times and not up to my recenter elegance).†  (source)
  • AND CAN I THEN BUT PRAY OTHERS MAY NEVER FEEL TYRANNIC SWAY?†  (source)
  • It said that our state was a poor state, and could not bear the burden thus tyrannically imposed upon it.†  (source)
    tyrannically = in a harsh and unjust manner
  • In the first place, by then I was incapable of love, for I repeat, with me loving meant tyrannising and showing my moral superiority.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it tyrannize.
  • And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind.†  (source)
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