Preposition: of

• lot: That then easily became opposition to Napoleon, the most formidable enlightened despot of the lot.

• century: Waugh fails to make the connection between the action of the Lancashire mill owner and the philosophy of European despots of the eighteenth century.

Converse of object

• become: In 1792, Gustavus III, a patron of the arts who had become an enlightened despot, was shot.

• like: Charlotte always arranges everything in our house and rules us like a despot.

Adjective modifier

• benevolent: The table scrap thing makes a person feel like a benevolent despot, a human queen of the cat realm.

• enlightened: In 1792, Gustavus III, a patron of the arts who had become an enlightened despot, was shot.

• local: He was a local despot, with great appeal to Arab youths.

• evil: Stalin was quickly depicted as an evil despot, out to conquer the world.

• absolute: It is true that the bishop was not an absolute despot.

• political: The AoD production represented the returning warrior as a political despot ( complete with leather Nazi-style coat ).

Preposition: in

• charge: I support regime change where despots in charge are a danger to their own citizens and a danger to the citizens of other countries.