How to Use dictatorial in a Sentence

dictatorial

adjective

• He was given dictatorial powers.
• Is Putin just one of a long line of dictatorial rulers?
  — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2022
• At the church, Trump held a Bible aloft in a gesture that struck his critics as a dictatorial boast.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 3 June 2020
• The mausoleum is seen by many as a relic of a dictatorial past.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2017
• Do Bach and the I.O.C. have the guts to stand up for one of their own and call out the dictatorial host of its next showcase for a frightening human rights abuse?
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2021
• But even the most dictatorial sometimes have two sets of rules.
  — Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2022
• The key to dictatorial Russia is to neither love nor hate it.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 12 Sep. 2017
• But the Venezuelan regime did the necessary, from a dictatorial point of view.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Dec. 2020
• The era in which college coaches could throw their weight around in dictatorial fashion are over.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 2022
• Eager to set a dictatorial tone, Mai won't tell the brides who's marrying whom.
  — Kevin Canfield, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
• Jordan spent weeks in Bloomington at the behest of the team’s dictatorial coach, Bob Knight.
  — Jon Wertheim, Vulture, 25 June 2021
• So, succession fell to Bashar, an eye doctor, who did not seem to have the dictatorial mettle.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Apr. 2021
• The avenue was a key site for the Tunisian revolution a decade ago that brought down a dictatorial regime and unleashed the Arab Spring uprisings.
  — Fox News, 26 July 2021
• In the West, the culture tends to be dictatorial with no compromises.
  — Greg Story, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• Now that the most ambitious and dictatorial leader since Mao is in place, who will be Beijing's next target?
  — Kent Wong, Star Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
• The young queen’s reign would be short-lived, however, as tensions had long been building in France over the dictatorial reign of the noblemen above the peasant classes.
  — Jess McHugh, Smithsonian, 19 May 2017
• The young queen’s reign would be short-lived, however, as tensions had long been building in France over the dictatorial reign of the noblemen above the peasant classes.
  — Jess McHugh, Smithsonian, 19 May 2017
• In cathedrals, in temples, in tiny churches and in homes of rich and poor, the city prayed so that its sons and daughters in the armed forces may safely and speedily crush the dictatorial foes of liberty.
  — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• On one side, commenters found the black-and-white images fascistic and dictatorial, and rolled their eyes at the appointment of yet another white man to head a legacy house.
  — Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
• The story is a glimpse into the life of 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (who became the dictatorial President Snow in the trilogy) and his shot at glory.
  — Kami Phillips, CNN Underscored, 9 July 2020
• Germany was doomed by its dictatorial system, which allowed Adolf Hitler to launch a global war that was beyond the country’s means.
  — Phillips P. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 29 June 2023
• This smacks of the dictatorial regimes of Philippines, Indonesia and North Korea.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2017
• Japan is organized — not in a dictatorial kind of way, but in a functional, smooth manner.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2021
• Some of them do this while praising the plainly dictatorial fury with which China confronted this virus.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 26 Mar. 2020
• Surely this dictatorial agency that oppresses free will for the sake of order is evil, right?
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 15 July 2021
• The song is about the heavy emigration movement happening in the country because of the dictatorial regime of president Nicolás Maduro and the crisis in Venezuela.
  — Billboard Venezuela, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2018
• CoverGirl was knocked for selling makeup tied in with dictatorial villains of The Hunger Games.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 May 2017
• And the idea that Jobim, in fighting not just to compose the album but to arrange and mastermind it, was acting like some sort of dictatorial guru is absurd.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
• On Sunday, the people of Venezuela go to the polls in an election that is far from free or fair yet might still give voters a chance to show their disapproval of a regime that is corrupt, dictatorial and unpopular.
  — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• According to Burke, in Germany during the 1930s, these rhetorical appeals formed the basis of Hitler’s authoritarianism as a governing ideal, leading to the creation of the Nazi dictatorial state.
  — Richard Cherwitz, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024