Adjective:

கொடுங்கோல்,

despotic's Usage Examples:

was to establish Roman Catholicism, and to make himself despotic in England, with the help of the French king.

Men thought him more cruel and more despotic than he actually was.

the part of the queen to rule despotically, by the help of reckless adventurers of mean capacity, and by brute violence.

The administration became more and more despotic, and Tangier was abandoned in order to reduce expenses and to increase the forces at home for overawing opposition.

"It is not a despotic monarchy governed from one centre and by a monarch in whom plenitude of power resides.

The "Brahma Samaj of India," as Chunder Sen's party styled itself, made considerable progress extensively and intensively until 1878, when a number of the most prominent adherents, led by Anand Mohan Bose, took umbrage at Chunder Sen's despotic rule and at his disregard of the society's regulations concerning child marriage.

The acquiescence of these bodies in the transition to despotic methods predisposed the public to a similar attitude of mind.

In other cases a more despotic monarchy has grown up - the prowess of one man leading to the subjugation of other clans.

If Oscar did not actively assist the Opposition on this occasion, his disapprobation of his father's despotic behaviour was notorious, though he avoided an actual rupture.

Italy not only gave him a taste for art and letters, but furnished him with an arsenal of despotic maxims.

By imbuing Frenchmen with such a mutual hatred as nothing but the arm of despotic power could control the Reign of Terror rendered political liberty impossible for many years.

He was succeeded by the principal khalif a, Abdullah ci Taaisha, a Baggara Arab, who for the next thirteen years ruled the Sudan with despotic power.

Synonyms:

despotical,

Antonyms:

egalitarian, parliamentary,