despotic regime
Frequency: 6.53.0 per million words
a government or system of rule that is absolute and oppressive
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- The citizens lived in constant fear under the despotic regime.
- Activists around the world are calling for an end to the despotic regime.
- Historians have documented the many atrocities committed by that despotic regime.
- He wrote a book detailing his escape from the clutches of the despotic regime.
- International sanctions were imposed to weaken the despotic regime's grip on power.
- The revolution finally succeeded in overthrowing the long-standing despotic regime.
- Under the despotic regime, freedom of speech was completely nonexistent.
- It is a moral imperative to oppose any despotic regime that violates human rights.
- The film vividly portrays the struggle of ordinary people against a despotic regime.
- Generations of people knew nothing but life under the oppressive despotic regime.