czarist

variants also tsarist or tzarist

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for czarist
Adjective
  • But he is despised by Thailand’s powerful elites, who saw his rule as corrupt, authoritarian and socially destabilizing.
    Lionel Lim, Fortune, 19 June 2025
  • Democracy organizations worldwide document how authoritarian regimes and opportunistic politicians weaponize AI to consolidate power.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • This was the fantasy in 1953, when the CIA and the British intelligence overthrew Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran’s prime minister who had nationalized the country’s oil, and delivered Iran to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s autocratic rule.
    Narges Bajoghli, Time, 19 June 2025
  • Most Third World states, for example, that were born as democracies lapsed into dictatorships or became autocratic shortly after independence.
    ASHLEY J. TELLIS, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
Adjective
  • Napoleon, the pig who takes despotic control of the farm following the revolution — voiced with haughty gusto by Seth Rogen — bears an uncanny resemblance to the current occupant of the White House.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025
  • Bernal as a despotic and at times deluded Magellan persuades the Spanish Crown to fund his bold 16th century expedition to the fabled lands of the East, only to unleash a decade of devastation wreaked by European conquistadors in the Pacific as part of colonial conquests.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Remaining calm under pressure is an absolute must here.
    Bill Rokos, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Hobert has quickly proven herself as a performer in her own right with this absolute banger, however.
    Vogue, Vogue, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Despite his character's domineering presence, Morse told ScreenRant there's more than meets the eye.
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 18 June 2025
  • It was then put to Tuchel that the show’s host Adrian Durham has friends who think England would be better off without Bellingham in the team, referring to that domineering personality.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • In the sequel, Atwood focuses on how tyrannical regimes destroy themselves.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 May 2025
  • The judiciary is the last obstacle to a president with designs on tyrannical rule.
    Sonam Sheth, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 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
  • Even his former closest associates now acknowledge that his political efforts have not lasted more than a few weeks or at most a few months, due to his dictatorial approach.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
  • Making a dictatorial decision could come back to haunt you as Mars and Uranus clash.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 15 June 2025
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“Czarist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/czarist. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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