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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

... the other. Charles, with no one to fear since Muehlberg had witnessed the destruction of the League of Schmalkald, was preparing future disaster by his high-handed attitude within the Empire. Deeming his position absolutely secure, his tone to the Pope was peremptory and dictatorial. The French King encouraged Paul to be equally peremptory. In May 1548, Charles, repudiating the authority of the Council, or section of the Council, sitting at Bologna, took the law in his own hands and imposed the "Interim ...

— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes

... received a home-education everything was strangely bewildering to him, and Julian was almost the only friend he knew. Nor was he likely to attract many friends; his manner was strangely self-confident, and his language dictatorial and dogmatic. In his mother's house he had long been the centre of religious tea-parties, before which he was often called upon to read and even to expound the Scriptures. "At the tip of his subduing tongue" were a number of fantastic phrases, originally misapplied, and long ...

— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar

... his brother Albert, and he lay on his own bed of furs and skins in their own cabin, commonly called by them Castle Howard, snugly situated in the lost or enchanted valley. And here was Albert, healthy, strong, and dictatorial, while he, stretched weakly upon a bed, held our a hand through which the sun could almost shine. Truly, ...

— The Last of the Chiefs - A Story of the Great Sioux War • Joseph Altsheler

... was plainly expressed twenty-five years ago by the German historian Wilhelm Mueller, who wrote in a review of the year 1884: "England was the opponent of all the maritime Powers of Europe. She had for decades assumed at sea the same dictatorial attitude as France had maintained upon land under Louis XIV. and Napoleon I. The years 1870-1871 broke the French spell; the year 1884 has shown England that the times of her maritime imperialism also are over, ...

— Britain at Bay • Spenser Wilkinson

... last night," returned Gavin. still wondering at this man's dictatorial attitude toward the aggressive Milo Standish and at Milo's almost cringing acceptance of it. "I was at the Standishes. I was just starting for bed when you dropped in. ...

— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune

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