Instantly the public recognized a common type of a domestic tyrant whom Ostrovsky was the first to ever show on the Russian theater stage.

Botev's poetry reflected the sentiments of the poor people, filled with revolutionary ideas, struggling for their freedom against both foreign and domestic tyrants.

Stanley ruled the roost from a desk in the middle of the living room, a domestic tyrant whom everyone, especially Shirley, seems to have adored.

My dad was a domestic tyrant.

Mr. Oldsmith, the senior, was a courteous domestic tyrant, a man whose infallibility had never been challenged by his wife.

You, Sir John, may be a domestic tyrant in Herefordshire, but here you have no authority at all.

Although he is a devout and respected man, he is a domestic tyrant.

Although playing a strong supporting part in the case, Bunter is also allowed to be a domestic tyrant:

It was discovered that Per Ekwall had been an alcoholic and a domestic tyrant.

Wife-beaters, child abusers and other domestic tyrants could always be counted on to stir up homicidal outrage.