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Favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority

Strict or exacting in rules, standards or expectations

Having great impact or influence

Relating to, or supporting, fascism

Seeking to impose a doctrine in all circumstances without regard to practical considerations

Paternalistic or overprotective

Very dignified or noble in nature or demeanor

Having too high an opinion of one's own worth

A person who exerts authority over others

An advocate or follower of extreme political authoritarianism

One who exercises discipline

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Adjective

Favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority

anti-democratic

high and mighty

high-and-mighty

throwing one's weight around

unconstitutional

throwing one's weight about

throwing weight around

in driver's seat

on your high horse

no ifs ands or buts

no holds barred

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“Stambolov thus emerges from these pages as a complex historical figure, an authoritarian ruler who protected his country's liberty at the cost of the people's freedom.”

Adjective

Strict or exacting in rules, standards or expectations

desensitised^UK

desensitized^US

take-no-prisoners

tough nut to crack

dyed-in-the-wool

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“Members of these communities have been reeling under authoritarian laws.”

Adjective

Having great impact or influence

incontrovertible

well-established

coming on strong

carrying conviction

highly impressive

not taking no for an answer

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Adjective

Relating to, or supporting, fascism

Adjective

Seeking to impose a doctrine in all circumstances without regard to practical considerations

self-opinionated

holding fixed views

unchallengeable

of preconceived ideas

standing one's ground

sticking to one's guns

hold your ground

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Adjective

Paternalistic or overprotective

Adjective

Very dignified or noble in nature or demeanor

Adjective

Having too high an opinion of one's own worth

high-and-mighty

holier-than-thou

self-applauding

self-centred^UK

self-centered^US

self-complacent

self-congratulatory

self-dramatizing

self-flattering

self-glorifying

self-gratulatory

self-opinionated

high and mighty

too big for your boots

full of yourself

full of oneself

pleased with oneself

pleased with yourself

proud of oneself

too big for your breeches

individualistic

full of hot air

putting on airs

too big for your britches

stuck on oneself

think too highly of oneself

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

in love with oneself

think a lot of oneself

throwing one's weight around

blowing one's own horn

offensively self-assertive

nose in the air

sure of yourself

swollen with pride

think one is the cat's pyjamas

think one is the cat's whiskers

wrapped up in oneself

think one is God's gift

on your high horse

self-aggrandizing

throwing one's weight about

I'm all right, Jack

flushed with success

proud of yourself

like a cat that has swallowed the canary

like the cat that's got the cream

blowing one's own trumpet

like the cat that got the cream

resting on your laurels

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Noun

A person who exerts authority over others

man on horseback

hard taskmaster

royal personage

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“Should we expect an authoritarian who is dying to exhibit more compassion or conscience than a robust authoritarian in the prime of life?”

Noun

An advocate or follower of extreme political authoritarianism

Noun

One who exercises discipline

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