Despot is valid Scrabble Word

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6 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for DESPOT in dictionary:

NOUN:

a ruler with absolute power and authority
a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way.
person in power who acts unfairly or cruelly
A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.
One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.
a cruel and oppressive dictator

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a tyrant

Words related to DESPOT

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Words that contain DESPOT

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How to use DESPOT in a sentence

George III, slipping into feebleness and insanity, yet jealous of his unconstitutional power, was a vacillating despot, quarrelling with his Commons and his Ministers.
We know that a good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
It was this surly, black despot who held sway over her deepest emotions.
The mortification and rage of the despot were unbounded.
For he was what is called an enlightened despot, which is the worst kind of despot.
It is like introducing a system of penal laws into domestic life, and establishing the tyranny of a moral despot among the affections of the heart.
He knew it was as near to a concession as the despot could come.
He was, by nature, a despot, and most reluctantly, for the sake of grasping the reins of power, he had relinquished a few of the royal prerogatives.
The Scythian expedition was no insane project of a frantic despot, burning for revenge, or ambitious of an impossible conquest.
England had grown impatient of the rule of a despot, though she was not yet able to govern herself after a constitutional fashion.

He may be a despot if he wishes, benevolent or otherwise.
His compliments wasted their sweetness on the dull ears of the despot of Madrid.
Despotism seems to work well or ill according to the despot, and so, as a form of government, it has steadily declined in favor.
But the one is, nevertheless, as truly a republican as the other is a despot.
In Turkey, where the sole nod of the despot is death, insurrections are the events of every day.
That would oblige even a despot to govern us republicanly.
All the world had been a foe to be feared and parried except myself, and I had been a despot.
It had occurred to him that the protest of Harrison had gone about as far as it could be safely carried, for Gabriel was both a ruthless and a hot-tempered despot.
The King of Bosnia, and Stefan, Despot of Serbia, declared war on each other and fought for several years.
Severus, however, was a military despot, and, despising the feeble Senate, assumed both the legislative and the executive power.
Despotism may be tempered by epigrams, and so become tolerable, but it is important that the epigrams should not be made by the despot.
Among his few associates he was a leader and a despot.
For the present he certainly was no despot, but in the future he might have usefulness.
The King of Cyprus, however, an insolent and haughty despot, sent back a message of defiance.
And no tyrant, no despot, can obstruct the triumphal march of liberty.
And in like manner Gelon, the despot of Syracuse in Sicily, would not send aid unless he were accepted as leader.
No system of government can be maintained without institutions, and a despot dislikes institutions.
Why should anyone want to kill him? He was not a despot who had been treading on the rights of the people.
He was a prominent member of a wealthy and aristocratic family rather than a despot.
Napoleon, the unquestioned despot of the rest of continental Europe, had also grasped at the Peninsula.

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