Usually means: Ruling with absolute power oppressively.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. despotically: Merriam-Webster
  2. despotically: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. despotically: Collins English Dictionary
  4. despotically: Vocabulary.com
  5. despotically: Wordnik
  6. despotically: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. despotically: Wiktionary
  8. despotically: Dictionary.com
  9. despotically: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. despotically: FreeDictionary.org
  11. despotically: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. despotically: Legal dictionary

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  1. despotically: Encyclopedia

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▸ adverb:  In a despotic manner.

Similar:
despoticly, tyrannously, dictatorially, oppressively, tyrannically, depravingly, domineeringly, disdainfully, depravedly, condescendingly, more...

Opposite:
democratically, liberally, fairly, justly

Types:
democratically, autocratically, oligarchically, theocratically, plutocratically, kleptocratically, dictatorially, more...

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Similar:
despoticly, tyrannously, dictatorially, oppressively, tyrannically, depravingly, domineeringly, disdainfully, depravedly, condescendingly, more...

Opposite:
democratically, liberally, fairly, justly

Types:
democratically, autocratically, oligarchically, theocratically, plutocratically, kleptocratically, dictatorially, more...



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