Brutal
Brutal adjective - Difficult to endure.
Totalitarian and brutal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Totalitarian" instead an adjective "Brutal".
Totalitarian
Totalitarian adjective - Characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control.
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Brutal and totalitarian are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brutal" instead an adjective "Totalitarian".
Nearby Word: totalitarianism
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Conveniently Interrupted Document: Winston is reading Goldstein's book, and is just about to learn why the Party is so brutal and totalitarian — upon which he stops because Julia's fallen asleep, preventing both him and the reader from learning the reason (until later).
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In the end, the revolution wins, and ends up regressing the ship's society to a totalitarian dictatorship even more brutal than the previous one.
- In the lands they had occupied, there had been many converts to their strange, totalitarian and occasionally brutal religion.
Source: Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide"
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