All 3 Uses of
tyranny
in
Arrowsmith
- It was all so much easier, now that he was partly freed from the tyrannical honesty of Gottliebism, from the unswerving quest for causes which, as it drove through layer below layer, seemed ever farther from the bottommost principles, from the intolerable strain of learning day by day how much he did not know.†
Chpt 10
- News-items and three-line editorial squibs dug at his tyranny, his ignorance, his callowness.†
Chpt 24 *
- Thanks to Sondelius's crafty bullying, Martin was able to present his plan to a Special Board composed of the Governor, the temporarily suspended Board of Health, Inchcape Jones, several hearty members of the House of Assembly, and Sondelius himself, attending in the unofficial capacity which all over the world he had found useful for masking a cheerful tyranny.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(tyranny) harsh and unjust rule