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tyrannically

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ty·ran·ni·cal  (t-rn-kl, t-) also ty·ran·nic (-rnk)
adj.
1. Of or relating to a tyrant or tyranny: a tyrannical government.
2. Characteristic of a tyrant or tyranny; despotic and oppressive: a tyrannical supervisor.

ty·ranni·cal·ly adv.
ty·ranni·cal·ness n.
Translations
tyrannically [tɪˈrænɪkəlɪ] ADVtiránicamente
tyrannically [tɪˈrænɪklɪ] advtirannicamente


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I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learned Heathcliff had treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness: his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling plans were threatened with defeat by death.
The measures of the King and ministry were rendered more tyrannically violent by an opposition, which had not yet acquired sufficient confidence in its own strength to resist royal injustice with the sword.
I have been always tyrannically held down by the strong hand.
 
 
 
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