Thesaurus results for DESPOT

despot

noun

ˈde-spət

as in tyrant

a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way the despot exiled political dissidents to remote labor camps, where they were left to rot

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Recent Examples on the Web The question is whether Kim’s blossoming bromance with Putin risks emboldening the North Korean despot. —

Charlie Campbell, TIME, 19 June 2024 Presidents, movie stars, criminals and despots Barbara Jill Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning preeminence in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media a half-century later. —

Susan Page, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024 Although those who survived would pick up the pieces, the tyrants knew that their futures as ruthless despots were imperiled. —

Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024 Nick Offerman is the three-term authoritarian despot who tore the country apart. —

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