despot
noun
, -ˌpät\
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caesar, dictator, führer (or fuehrer), oppressor, pharaoh, strongman, tyrannizer, tyrant
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Kim, who is believed to be 72, may meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his U.S. visit in hopes of rescheduling the June 12 summit between the North Korean despot and Trump, Yonhap News Agency reported. — Fox News, "North Korea sends infamous ex-spy chief to US in bid to revive peace summit," 29 May 2018 On the other stand secularists, liberals, and the Kurds of the south-east, who see him as a corrupt and repressive despot. — The Economist, "Erdogan inaugurates a new political era in Turkey," 28 June 2018 With the talks he's been teasing incessantly now in doubt, the US President must be sweating his gamble on a budding relationship with a young despot. — Z. Byron Wolf, CNN, "Trump is all in on a North Korea summit that might not happen," 16 May 2018 One part of the table will be occupied by Mr. Kim, a young despot atop an insular and impoverished country whose degree of political stability remains a mystery. — New York Times, "An Unpredictable Trump and a Risk-Prone Kim Mean High Stakes and Mismatched Expectations," 23 Apr. 2018 This past April the King's Academy drama department responded to the Arab Spring by staging a version of Macbeth in which Shakespeare's murderous Scottish protagonists stood in for modern Arab despots. — Richard Mcgill Murphy, Town & Country, "Desert Prep," 17 Dec. 2012 Together, the parts of Ms. Backström’s show serve as powerful analogues for our own era of refugees and migrants moving across a globe ravaged by despots, war and ecological disaster. — Roberta Smith, Will Heinrich, Martha Schwendener And Jason Farago, New York Times, "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," 29 Mar. 2018 America has been the world’s policeman, the guarantor of a modicum of restraint from the world’s despots and fanatics. — Tony Abbott, WSJ, "An Ally Sizes Up Donald Trump," 13 July 2018 The two sides have been negotiating over the North’s nuclear-weapons programme since 1992, when Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of the current despot, Kim Jong Un, was in power (see timeline). — The Economist, "Talks between America and North Korea might succeed—at a terrible price," 7 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'despot.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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