How to Use despot in a Sentence

despot

noun

• The company is run by a benevolent despot.
• He was a successful basketball coach, but many people regarded him as a petty despot.
• Go back to Machiavelli and The Prince, and the idea of the benign despot.
  — Thomas Barrie, A-LIST, 9 Apr. 2018
• The despot’s foul play was apparent off the pitch, too.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• The free press is the despot’s enemy, which makes the free press the guardian of democracy.
  — Sarah Gray, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2018
• Vladimir Putin, the cunning despot and former KGB agent,...
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 7 May 2019
• On the non-reformist side, the things that have led people to call him a brutal despot.
  — CBS News, 14 Oct. 2020
• In 2011 mass protests led to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, a dreary despot.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Daly is a despot in the game, and the woman who saves the day happens to be played by Milioti herself.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 29 Mar. 2021
• On the contrary, after three meetings the despot is a firm buddy.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Stalin was a man of gulags and firing squads, a poster villain for the dangers posed by despots.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• The archive painstakingly preserves a George who is more than a despot or a madman.
  — Sara Georgini, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
• The archive painstakingly preserves a George who is more than a despot or a madman.
  — Sara Georgini, Smithsonian, 30 Jan. 2017
• On the one hand, Putin cannot allow a despot to be overthrown in his sphere of influence, lest Russians be inspired to do the same.
  — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2020
• This is from January 2022: Kara-Murza is not one who thinks that Russia is destined to be ruled by despots.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Sep. 2023
• In the strength column, the move puts new teeth behind the EU’s earlier measures to distance itself from the regime of despot Nicolás Maduro.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2019
• And the young despot does not weather embarrassment well.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
• Two are flotsam from the former Soviet Union, the despots of Belarus and Turkmenistan.
  — The Economist, 8 Apr. 2020
• But in 2011 the Arab spring erupted, and Arab despots responded by muzzling their critics.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• Indeed, the world's eyes have been opened to a despot's perverse plot to crush a sovereign nation every step of the muddied way.
  — Carrie Cordero, CNN, 24 Feb. 2022
• Their social media platforms can change the course of despots and democracies.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Facebook, clearly, is a tool for despots and the opposition.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 26 Jan. 2018
• Meanwhile, why hasn’t anyone called her out on her love affair with despot Bashar al-Assad?
  — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 16 Oct. 2019
• Although those who survived would pick up the pieces, the tyrants knew that their futures as ruthless despots were imperiled.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
• Such horrors are why most countries outlawed the use of chemical weapons long ago—and why Syria’s despot flouts that ban.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• Their attacks on the Play-Doh despot were belated and pathetic.
  — Joe Klein, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
• Yet unlike in Sudan, where protests forced out a veteran despot, Omar al-Bashir, there are few young folk left in Eritrea.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• But this time, the despot, the demagogue, and the war-crimes advocate had something unusual in common.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
• On the other stand secularists, liberals, and the Kurds of the south-east, who see him as a corrupt and repressive despot.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• Nick Offerman is the three-term authoritarian despot who tore the country apart.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024