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Dictatorial

adjective

Of or characteristic of a dictator.

Expecting unquestioning obedience. Synonyms: authoritarian, overbearing. "Insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter"

Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty. Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical. "Autocratic government" , "Despotic rulers" , "A dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war" , "A tyrannical government"

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"Dictatorial" Quotes from Famous Books

... who cannot refer, among their acquaintances, to a family like the Armitages. They may ordinarily be known by their constant complaints about servants, and their dictatorial way of speaking whenever they happen to call upon them for the performance of ...

— Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper • T. S. Arthur

... I be dictatorial?" I shouted, while my ancestors held their sides with laughter, "and this being my house I'm going to talk as loud as I please. If the girl I love, as no man ever loved a girl before, tries to go out ...

— 32 Caliber • Donald McGibeny

... decisive one, and, though it had not landed on either of the Taggarts, it had at least shown them what they might expect. He intended to deliver other blows, and he was rather glad now that he had not been so weak as to allow Betty's dictatorial attitude to drive him from the ranch, for in that case he would never have discovered the plot to cheat him of his heritage—would not have been in a position to bring discomfiture and confusion upon ...

— The Boss of the Lazy Y • Charles Alden Seltzer

... Gypsy would have been ruined by this sort of companionship. Her frank, impulsive generosity saved her from becoming tyrannical or dictatorial. The worst of it was, that she was forced to form such a habit of ...

— Gypsy Breynton • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

... to be with Mary Datchet and to become, directly the door was shut, quite a different sort of person, eccentric and lovable, with scarcely any likeness to the self most people knew. He became less serious, and rather less dictatorial at home, for he was apt to hear Mary laughing at him, and telling him, as she was fond of doing, that he knew nothing at all about anything. She made him, also, take an interest in public questions, for which she had a natural liking; and was in process of ...

— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf

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