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Recent Examples of undemocratic
Voters also backed a proposal to change the constitution, with nearly two-thirds in favor of replacing a charter put in place after a 2014 military coup, which critics say gave too much power to an undemocratic senate.
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Reuters, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
This Department of Justice has no tolerance for undemocratic judicial activism.
—Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2025
That is unacceptably cruel, corrupt, and undemocratic.
—Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Supervisor David Canepa, who pushed for a public vote, called the decision undemocratic but was outnumbered.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
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Reuters, NBC news, 9 Feb. 2026
This Department of Justice has no tolerance for undemocratic judicial activism.
—Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2025
That is unacceptably cruel, corrupt, and undemocratic.
—Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Supervisor David Canepa, who pushed for a public vote, called the decision undemocratic but was outnumbered.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undemocratic
Adjective
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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
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In nondemocratic regimes, senior officials wall themselves off from reality because their underlings are afraid to deliver bad news.—
Donald Moynihan,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Memories of the shah's autocratic rule remain mixed in the country, although nostalgia for the period's economic prosperity has grown.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Was this a prank, an autocratic emergency, or something else?—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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My ability to complete Ballot during a genocide and despotic takeover hinged on confronting these uncomfortable truths.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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The book explains the world order as three despotic governments that horrifically dominate their citizens, control their respective satellite allies and are always at war.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Such a position would run roughshod over the text and original meaning of the Constitution, and create a dangerous form of near-monarchical presidential power.—
Ilya Somin,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2026
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Since the Pahlavi monarchy’s nation-building project began in 1925, successive governments, both monarchical and then the Islamic Republic, have treated ethnic diversity as a security challenge and repeatedly suppressed demands for political inclusion, language rights and local governance.—
Shukriya Bradost,
The Conversation,
13 Jan. 2026
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Yet the tyrannical impulse of authoritarian populists is the same across the world.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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The Colbert episode did not prove that the agency is tyrannical or obsolete.—
Jay Caruso,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Undemocratic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undemocratic. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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