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Pronunciation: [tˈɪɹɐnəsli] (IPA)

Tyrannously is an adverb that describes behavior that is cruel, oppressive, and unjust. Synonyms for this word include oppressively, despotically, autocratically, dictatorially, domineeringly, imperiously, ruthlessly, and coercively. These adverbs describe actions taken by those who seek to control others through force, intimidation, or fear. They often refer to those who wield power without consideration for the rights, interests, or welfare of those under their authority. While these words may have similar meanings to tyrannously, they also carry their own connotations and nuances that may further enhance the descriptions of oppressive behavior.
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Ah, yes-that "stout, elderly woman"; so superabundant whether as a type or as an individual; so prone-or "liable"-to impinge tyrannously upon the consciousness of her fellow-traveller, and in no less a degree upon that of the public servant, who, from his place aloft, guides, as it is phrased, the destinies of the conveyance.
"The So-called Human Race"
Bert Leston Taylor
And this, then, is the end of Sweden, and its bad neighborhood on these shores, where it has tyrannously sat on our skirts so long?
"History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) Frederick The Great--The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg--1412-1718"
Thomas Carlyle
The Anglo-Saxon navies, he might argue, have a certain code of rules for use at sea; they let women get first into the boats, for instance, when ships are sinking, and they rescue drowning mariners when they can: no actual harm in all this, he would feel, though it would weaken you, as Hindenburg said of poetry; but if all these little rules are tyrannously enforced on those who may think them silly, what is to become of the pirate?
"Tales of War"
Lord Dunsany

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