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Authoritarian

Adjective Hard
English: Enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the government, at the expense of personal freedom.
Explanation: This adjective describes a style of government or leadership that demands absolute obedience and suppresses dissent, often without regard for individual rights.

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"The country was moving towards an increasingly authoritarian style of governance."

Dictatorial autocratic despotic tyrannical strict
Democratic liberal permissive lenient

"Authoritarian" sounds like "authority-ridden" – someone obsessed with having and enforcing authority.

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