Prince
Strongman
Strongman noun - A person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way.
Usage example: a Latin-American strongman who basically treated his nation's coffers as his personal bank account
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- Thus you get lots of people with Arabic, Turkic, or Persian names attached to "-ov(a)," etc., like the Uzbek strongman Islam Karimov ("karīm" being Arabic for "generous") and his Vice-President Shavkat Mirziyoyev ("mirza" meaning "child of the prince" in Persian).
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