English-French translations for despotic

• despotique
  Et cela, c'est un comportement despotique. And that is despotic behaviour.
  De nombreuses années durant, nous avons soutenu des régimes despotiques et des dictatures dans le monde arabe. For many years, we have given our support to despotic regimes and dictatorships in the Arab world.
  Les tentatives occidentales d'imposer une démocratisation rapide des régimes despotiques dans le monde ont échoué. Attempts by the West to enforce a rapid democratisation of despotic regimes in the world have failed.

Definition of despotic

• Of or pertaining to a despot or tyrant
• Acting or ruling as a despot, tyrannical

Examples

• This despotic age of the empire ended in a revolt
• The despotic king dissolved the parliament, and took personal control of the country.

Related words

• despotically
• despoticalness
• adespotic