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tyrannous

Speech parts

1. tyrannous - Adjective

2. tyrannous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Oh it is excellent to have a giant's strength But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. William Shakespeare

Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection. Marcus Aurelius

Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It's sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it's actually very rough when you experience it. William Shakespeare

The storm is over, the land hushes to rest: The tyrannous wind, its strength fordone, Is fallen back in the west. Robert Bridges

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