Mussolinin.
/ˌmʊsəˈliːni/, /ˌmʌsəˈliːni/, U.S. /ˌmusəˈlini/ A person who embodies the characteristics of Mussolini; a person with fascist or domineering tendencies; a dictator, a tyrant.
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tyrantc1290
Turk1536
Pharaoh1565
tyrannizer1602
domineerer1641
Corsican1739
Napoleon1821
Ozymandias1878
big-sticker1905
Mussolini1926
Hitler1930
1926 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 20 632 The election was not fought directly over the policies of the government of the day, but the issue was drawn between fascism and bolshevism,..between the ‘Mussolinis’ and the ‘Lenins’ of France.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas xxiv. 257 The Hitlers and Mussolinis of the picture world.
1975 Times 19 Dec. 2/2 Mr. Mulley is setting himself up as a mini-Mussolini..there will be a spontaneous upsurge of resistance to these dictatorial proposals.
1990 O. Chadwick Michael Ramsey i. i. 19 At the end of one debate there was nothing left of either Fascism or Communism when he had finished with them. But what causes them? Who will be our upstart Mussolini?
2000 S. King On Writing 120 Even William Strunk, that Mussolini of rhetoric, recognized the delicious pliability of language.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1926- to do business with
- to do business with a person
- to do by
- to do by a person's rede
- to do cheer
- to do chivalry
- to do circles around
- to do circles round
- to do civility
- to do company
- to do company to
- to do company to a person
- to do credit to
- to do days
- to do dere
- to do despite to
- to do die
- to do dirt
- to do dirt to
- to do dirty
- to do disease to
- to do dishonour to
- to do doughnuts
- to do down
- to do duty