Thesaurus results for DESPOT

despot

noun

ˈde-spət

as in tyrant

a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way the despot exiled political dissidents to remote labor camps, where they were left to rot

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Recent Examples of despot The Mobutu regime finally fell to rebels in 1997, and the despot who had looted over $5 billion in wealth from his land was forced into exile to Morocco. —Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025 When Trump announced recently that the program would be killed, there were celebratory announcements from petty despots around the world—in Belarus, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador. —Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025 Our foundational document, held and displayed in the National Archives building on the National Mall, insists that all men are created equal and rails against the tyranny of despots and kings. —Elaine Weiss, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2025 His pain pours out, like a long cry from Syria’s dungeons, a cry that was silenced during more than half a century of rule by brutal despots, Bashar al-Assad, and his father, Hafez, before him. —Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for despot