Tyrannical
Tyrannical adjective - Fond of ordering people around.
Usage example: even when he was still a toddler, he tended to be a tyrannical playmate
Vain and tyrannical are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vain" instead an adjective "Tyrannical".
Vain
Vain adjective - Having too high an opinion of oneself.
Tyrannical and vain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Tyrannical" instead an adjective "Vain".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Even though he's normally portrayed on a positiver light than the Súper, he's not above being vain and tyrannical.
Source: Comic Book / Mortadelo y Filemón - Snow white is very sweet, kind to animals and other people, and naïve while the evil queen is jealous, tyrannical, abusive, vain, arrogant, and murderous as she is obsessed with killing Snow White so the queen could become the fairest of the land.
Source: Red Oni Blue Oni / Film - The Middle: The studious, inoffensive Brick and spirited, encourager Sue; the vain, pompous, opinionated and tyrannical coolness policeman Axl, who cracks down on all "dorks"; and the parents in the middle, each in a unique way: the major McCoy-like Frankie and the stoic, distant Mike.
Source: Nice, Mean, and In-Between
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