arbitrariness 2

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The quality or state of being marked by or resulting from the unrestrained and often tyrannical exercise of power.

  • 1.The Soviet authorities have always striven to mask the cruelty and arbitrariness of Soviet justice, trying to reconcile it with the claim that in the socialist society all people are "friends, comrades and brothers."

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