undemocratic

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as in nondemocratic

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Recent Examples of undemocratic Biden likened the matches to Roman gladiator fights staged by 1st century emperors during undemocratic times. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 June 2026 Regardless of why Americans express neutrality, those who do so are just as likely to vote for authoritarian politicians as the relatively small number of Americans (less than 1 in 5) who explicitly support undemocratic practices. — Matthew E.k. Hall, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026 Nobel laureates Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson argue that when wealth is concentrated at the top, elites become willing to back undemocratic candidates to protect their assets from redistribution. — Sarita Gupta, Time, 2 June 2026 This is a fundamentally undemocratic proposal that is not supported by the majority of Californians. — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for undemocratic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for undemocratic
  1. nondemocratic
  2. autocratic
  3. despotic
  4. monarchical
  5. tyrannical
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  • Particularly in authoritarian or nondemocratic nation-states, journalists can be jailed or harassed for doing their job of reporting on abuses of power.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
  • Sure, but any leader of any country, democratic, nondemocratic, whatever else, is going to want a military that’s competent.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2026
Definition of nondemocratic
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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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  • The comedy of errors that follows as Ina attempts to solve the nation’s problems, from traffic congestion to energy crisis, doubles as a critique of the despotic regime and the tumult of living in such hellish times.
    — Lé Baltar, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Indeed, the representatives of that Government assert that the people of Hawaii are unfit for popular government and frankly avow that they can be best ruled by arbitrary or despotic power.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of despotic
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  • This is a dynastic struggle rooted in antiquated monarchical, patriarchal belief systems.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Federalists were for this grand gesture, but their opponents, Jeffersonian republicans (later called Democrat-Republicans), were against such monarchical trappings.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 27 July 2026
Definition of monarchical
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  • 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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