tyrannical• It was this last, clearly tyrannical, action which stirred Anselm to take the only countervailing measure open to him.• Lewis was a tyrannicalboss who frightened and humiliated his employees.• a tyrannical boss• Dennis Quaid is the doughtyknight, Bowen, battling David Thewlis' tyrannicalking.• He never asked if she remembered his tyrannical parenting.• Some people felt that machinesexercised a new kind of tyrannical power over them.• Thousands of refugeesfled the tyrannicalregime in search of political freedom.• a tyrannical regime• Adrian, the tyrannicalwaitress in a foreign country, had them all spellbound.• Some treated their staff in a high-handed and tyrannical way.