Definition of "tyrannically" [tyrannically]

• In a tyrannical manner (adverb)

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• "Pre-colonial Africa had its own ways of resolving problems through consensus, those traditional systems were ignored when former European rulers "tyrannically" imposed Western democratic systems upon independence, the People's Daily newspaper said in a commentary."
• ""Western-style democratic theory simply isn't suited to African conditions, but rather carries with it the root of disaster," the People's Daily newspaper, the official mouthpiece of China's ruling Communist Party, said in a commentary today that blamed Kenya's post-election violence on European countries 'decisions to "tyrannically" impose Western democratic systems when their colonies achieved independence."
• "The words he chose were very long and took up the whole line, and he evinced a marked partiality for such expressions as "tyrannically,""