The Clue
Like Holmes's breakfast-table man (10 letter answer)
The Answer
AUTOCRATIC
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Notes
The answer AUTOCRATIC is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
AUTOCRATIC as an adjective:
1. (autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory) = offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner"
2. (authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannical) = characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government"