despotic

Modifies a noun

• ruler: Together all three crash land on the planet Mongo where they do battle with despotic ruler Ming the Merciless.
• dictator: There are hundreds of despotic dictators killing with impunity in hundreds of nations right now.
• regime: He did not use this issue either, all he did was make the case why we are fighting this despotic regime.
• rule: The spirit of both is the same, and they alike exercise a despotic rule over the better citizens.
• power: Where will be [ God's ] justice and wisdom if he only has a certain despotic power?

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: Certainly one wants to bring the wicked alliance between corrupt Enron and the increasingly despotic Bush administration to an end.
• sometimes: The latter are usually associated with great figures of military history and conjure up charismatic and sometimes despotic images.
• too: King Otho proved too despotic, and was accordingly expelled, after a reign of thirty years.

Used with adjective complement

• become: What might have begun as a useful idea becomes despotic.