czarist

variants also tsarist or tzarist

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for czarist
Adjective
  • Tanks rumbled through Tiananmen Square, a location that offered a stark reminder of how authoritarian states can violently crush democratic movements.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • On Thursday morning, opposition party Vente Venezuela denounced the detention of Julio Velazco, a local activist involved with the campaign of Maria Corina Machado, the main opposition leader who is still in hiding after the authoritarian push that followed the election.
    Andrew Raine, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The great power contest today seems to be between who will lead an increasingly autocratic world, and China is moving into the lead.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • London — The United States is sliding into 1930s-style autocratic politics, billionaire Ray Dalio has warned.
    Olesya Dmitracova, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Academy rules work for countries with democratic governments but not for countries with despotic regimes.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Access to justice too (something often underrated), where you can’t be killed or robbed with impunity, and where you won’t be arbitrarily deprived of your liberty or your freedom of speech by a despotic government.
    Simon Boas July 23, Literary Hub, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • Open spaces, huge rooms, and an absolute lack of privacy are all the rage.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • After a review, the ACIP decided to focus first on getting the vaccine to people at the absolute highest risk, people 65 and up, a recommendation ultimately accepted by the CDC.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Cappellazzo could be domineering.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • His Victor is the product of a coddling mother (Mia Goth), who dies young and leaves him emotionally adrift, and a domineering father (Charles Dance), who molds him into a brilliant but heedless inventor.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The citizens of Venezuela don't deserve to live under the tyrannical rule of Maduro or any of his henchmen!
    Dan Gooding Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • With Rome's descent under tyrannical rule, Lucius must step into the gladiatorial ring and fight like his father before him for survival.
    James Mercadante, People.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • These tyrannous tabbies don’t understand that canning is not exclusively for wet food.
    Julie Klausner, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Indeed, Daniel Roher’s pulse-pumping documentary about the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has all the ingredients: a mysterious case of near-fatal poisoning, a web of for-hire hoodlums, Vladimir Putin as the tyrannous leader behind it all.
    Tomris Laffly, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Feb. 2022
Adjective
  • That Trump would explicitly address the dictator issue this week reflects just how head-spinningly fast his dictatorial actions have been coming at us.
    Jackie Calmes, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
  • La'An, meanwhile, starts to exhibit the dictatorial traits of the warmongering Romulans, who — unbeknown to most of the Federation — split off from the Vulcans to go their own way a few millennia previously.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Czarist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/czarist. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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