Examples of tyrannically

• She is a tyrannically patronising managerial type.

• King John had ruled tyrannically.

• She treated her old school friend tyrannically.

• Politicians agreed that husbands should not use their power tyrannically, but were also anxious to defend what they regarded as a crucial component of their masculinity.

• For the king and parliament, in which they were not represented, to take their property by statute was to act at least arbitrarily, and in their eyes tyrannically.

• I am not here to deny that that power was exercised in certain cases tyrannically.

• In doing so, it will not set itself up, either, as a teacher who tyrannically delivers his lessons.

• I do not think that this proposal has been put forward in any sense tyrannically.

• This is a naval force which is supposed to be maintained in a state of efficiency and discipline by a tyrannically-imposed discipline by officers bullying the men.

• In some instances, the chief and his supporters ruled tyrannically; in others, the chief became a manipulated figurehead.