monocrat

noun

Definition of monocratnext
as in autocrat

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  1. autocrat
  2. dictator
  3. tyrant
  4. pharaoh
  5. strongman
  6. despot
  7. totalitarian
  8. overlord
Noun
  • The public can’t handle the truth Recent political shows have settled into a mode that suggests the proletariat is, well, dumb — think of how The Regime depicts the populace of its unnamed country cheering for Kate Winslet’s mustard-fetishizing autocrat.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • This shock-the-monkey approach might have a sliver of merit if the U.S. economy were self-sufficient in renewables and if the autocrats weren’t poised to capitalize by filling the vacuum with their far more carbon-intensive oil and gas and less environmentally friendly refining techniques.
    Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of autocrat
Noun
  • Trump’s critics often accuse him of being or aspiring to be a strongman, or an autocrat, or even a fascist dictator.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
  • But to chortle with a murderous, anti-American dictator over a former vice president . .
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of dictator
Noun
  • Elphaba has helped the two tyrants permanently transform the monkeys against their will, and worse, strengthened the ensuing crackdown against the animals; hence, Elphaba is horrified by her own actions and vows to stand against Oz from that point on.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
  • What was criminal in the eyes of Putin and occasioned Navalny’s death was his work exposing the tyrant, his obsequious oligarchs and lickspittle party United Russia as crooks, thieves and killers.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of tyrant
Noun
  • Inside was a trove of riches from Tutankhamun, a pharaoh from Egypt’s New Kingdom (around 1550 to 1070 B.C.E.) who had been largely forgotten by history.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton square off with appropriate intensity as Moses, who leads 600,000 Hebrew slaves on a perilous escape from Egypt, and his brother Ramses, the pharaoh who marshals his forces against him.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of pharaoh
Noun
  • In May 2023, the Turkish opposition came within a few points of beating a long-ruling populist strongman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, despite fielding an uninspiring candidate who failed to offer a convincing agenda for economic improvement.
    Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Attunement to the longing for an all-knowing strongman who ensures safety helps sharpen the warnings about his abuses and violations.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of strongman
Noun
  • Freedom of the press and access to reliable information are pillars of democracy—freedoms which aspiring despots can manipulate to manufacture convenient new narratives, and rise to power.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Are these two giggling, sadistic despots — a double dose of Commodus, by the more-is-more arithmetic of sequels — the real villains of Gladiator II?
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of despot
Noun
  • Ridicule only appeals to cool kids on coasts and the college towns and totalitarians.
    Letters to the Editor, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Under the unconditional patronage of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kadyrov rules his republic as a totalitarian, and has done so since taking power in May 2004, after his father, then President Akhmad Kadyrov, was assassinated.
    Layla Taimienova, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2017
Definition of totalitarian
Noun
  • In 1652, British settlers in America defied their royal overlords by setting up a mint in Boston.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Instead, a new AI named Kokoro disrupts Skynet’s attack, hijacking household robots to act as her army and installing herself as a quasi-benevolent overlord in Tokyo.
    Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2024
Definition of overlord
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