Meaning & use
tyrannic
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Relating to or characteristic of a tyrant; cruelly oppressive or despotic.
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The tyrannic ruler crushed any hint of dissent among his subjects.
Historians describe the regime's tyrannic policies as among the harshest of the century.
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A somewhat less common variant of 'tyrannical'; both are used interchangeably in formal and literary writing.
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