Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a dictatorial or commanding manner; dogmatically.
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- adverb In a
dictatorial manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator
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Examples
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With these perspectives in mind, the insistence of FYROM Slavs to be called "Macedonians," a name dictatorially established and supported by communism´s brutal force and theoretical base sixty years ago, clashes now with the age-old freedom of Hellenic Macedonians to be called "Macedonians."
American Chronicle 2008
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For Leninists there was an answer: the vanguard of the proletariat rules dictatorially.
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In revenge, the opinion of one person dictatorially provides the answer to these questions, without an elected govenment or a market to balance other people's opinion.
What's Wrong with REVENGE?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Recently Sam Adams has dictatorially decided that he'll use $3.2 Million (per year, I believe) of the Parking taxes for the Milwaukie Light Rail.
Street parking in downtown Portland hits $1.60 an hour (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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For Leninists there was an answer: the vanguard of the proletariat rules dictatorially.
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By the time she has figured out how to be a working, often single parent—which arguments to bite back, which to dictatorially win—by then Jory will be gone.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
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For Leninists there was an answer: the vanguard of the proletariat rules dictatorially.
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For Leninists there was an answer: the vanguard of the proletariat rules dictatorially.
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However, I think the mayor is beginning to behave dictatorially, more like a king than a mayor.
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Obama is behaving dictatorially, if Bush was, but magnified.
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