Thesaurus results for STRONGMAN

strongman

noun

ˈstrȯŋ-ˌman

as in dictator

a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way a Latin-American strongman who basically treated his nation's coffers as his personal bank account

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Recent Examples of strongman Most people in the military and police know that the socialist strongman lost the election, and would side with the people if the conditions were created for a showdown, an opposition spokesperson told the Miami Herald. —

Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 11 Jan. 2025 Deprivation provides fertile ground for the appeal of a strongman. —

Katherine Tai, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2025 Created in 1963 under the former dictator Park Chung-hee, the P.S.S. was once one of the government’s most powerful agencies, with the military strongmen relying on its loyalty to escape assassination attempts. —

Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025 Also worrisome would be the emergence of a strongman like Egypt's Abdel Fatah el-Sisi who'd use the threat of chaos and Islamic fundamentalism to justify anti-democratic policies. —

John Feffer, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for strongman