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tyrannical

adjective

Pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; arbitrary; unjustly severe in government; imperious; despotic; cruel; as a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government or power. Our sects a more tyrannic power assume. Th’ oppressor rul’d tyrannic where he durst.