单词 | tyrannical |
释义 | tyrannicalty·ran·ni·cal /təˈrænɪkəl/ adjectiveadj CRUELbehaving in a cruel and unfair way towards someone you have power over 暴虐的,专横的 → tyrant a tyrannical parent 一位专横的家长 tyrannical laws 专制的法令 Examples from the Corpus tyrannical• It was this last, clearly tyrannical, action which stirred Anselm to take the only countervailing measure open to him.• Lewis was a tyrannical boss who frightened and humiliated his employees.• a tyrannical boss• Dennis Quaid is the doughty knight, Bowen, battling David Thewlis' tyrannical king.• He never asked if she remembered his tyrannical parenting.• Some people felt that machines exercised a new kind of tyrannical power over them.• Thousands of refugees fled the tyrannical regime in search of political freedom.• a tyrannical regime• Adrian, the tyrannical waitress in a foreign country, had them all spellbound.• Some treated their staff in a high-handed and tyrannical way. |
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