antidemocratic

adjective

Definition of antidemocraticnext
as in totalitarian

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Recent Examples of antidemocratic Great replacement theory has spurred many everyday White people into supporting antidemocratic political parties that harm most White people—and the rest of us. — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026 By partly neutralizing criticism that its leaders are elitist or antidemocratic, the right has been able to focus on issues that play to its strengths. — Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025 That is why critics of gerrymandering are right to regard it as antidemocratic. — Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025 That pursuit was also driven by the transformation of conservatism itself—which, beginning in the Nineties, became ever more extremist, populist, anti-government, antidemocratic, and supportive of authoritarian measures. — Terry M. Moe, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for antidemocratic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antidemocratic
  1. totalitarian
  2. oppressive
  3. authoritarian
  4. autocratic
  5. magisterial
  6. tyrannical
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  • There is something totalitarian about utopias, something already latent in More.
    — Carline Tromp, The Dial, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The foundation’s goal is to memorialize those killed by communist regimes and pursue freedom for people still living under totalitarian rule.
    — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 17 July 2026
Definition of totalitarian
Adjective
  • Casablanca is another clear reference point for an episode in which a café serves as a locus of intrigue for a resistance group fighting against oppressive invaders.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Airport ground crews in hot climates can be exposed to oppressive heat, and airlines must protect their health.
    — Emma Balleste, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of oppressive
Adjective
  • As Bukele gained popularity, there were internal discussions on how best to signal the Administration’s concerns about his increasingly authoritarian actions.
    — Daniel Castro, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The island’s very existence—a prosperous, democratic Chinese society integrated with the West—offers a stinging rebuke to the claim that authoritarian rule is uniquely suited to the Chinese people.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of authoritarian
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  • Roberts’s opinion took no heed of the current President’s autocratic impulses.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • His government has promised political and economic reform after decades of autocratic rule under the Assad family.
    — Abdulrahman Shaheen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of autocratic
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  • In both cases, there is something at once magisterial and leadenly self-regarding about the melancholic rhythms of Cusk’s prose, with its stiff and stately syntax and its utter impatience with the real vagaries of difference.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
  • As outlined in the magisterial biography produced by his grandson, Peter Ascoli, and a remarkable documentary by Aviva Kempner, Rosenwald’s accomplishments were breathtaking.
    — Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of magisterial
Adjective
  • Ayatollah Khomeini portrayed the shah as the tyrannical Yazid and himself as a Husayn-like figure returning from exile to save the Iranian people from injustice.
    — Iqbal Akhtar, The Conversation, 31 July 2026
  • The Hawaiians viewed the new rules as tyrannical; those with the disease were wont to hide in the hills of the islands, forever on the run.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Definition of tyrannical

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