Despot

The despot was seen surrounded by demonstrators.

The slave has his pride; he agrees to obey only the most vigorous despot.

According to some historians, Napoleon was an enlightened despot because of improvements he made in the social institutions of France. Others denounce him as an egocentric dictator because of the large number of people who died in his wars.

At home, Tom obeys his wife, but at work, he's a despot.

I know what it means to live with Stefan, or more accurately, to live under him. His whole life, he has been a despot and a tyrant, especially with respect to his family.

The Red Holocaust is best interpreted in this light as the bitter fruit of an^([sic]) utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanitarian disguise.