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.