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despotic
 
ADJECTIVE:1. Having and exercising complete political power and control: absolute, absolutistic, arbitrary, autarchic, autarchical, autocratic, autocratical, dictatorial, monocratic, totalitarian, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous. See OVER, POLITICS. 2. Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, totalitarian, tyrannic, tyrannical. See OVER.
 
 
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