N-COUNT (国家或组织的)军阀式领袖,暴君 If you describe a leader of a country or organization as a warlord, you are critical of them because they have achieved power by behaving in an aggressive and violent way. (国家或组织的)军阀式领袖,暴君 [disapproval]
He had been a dictator and a warlord who had oppressed and degraded the people of the South.