tyrannic

Young Haley tyrannically conducts “the boys” in “ ’Master Harold’…and the Boys” to reenact memories of his childhood.

Geta and Caracalla, we are told, rule tyrannically, and Lucius tells the people of the Colosseum that what happened to their political opponents can also happen to them.

The second is among those who are ... politically traumatized by their hyper-partisan, paralytic, paranoid worldview that Democrats, socialists, communists and Marxists have long conspired to tyrannically infringe upon their rights and freedoms.

Montesquieu warned that when executive and legislative power are mixed, “there is no liberty, because one can fear that the same monarch or senate that makes tyrannical laws will execute them tyrannically.”

His favorite theme is the widely chronicled corruption of the royal family, which he hammers for spending extravagantly and ruling tyrannically.