high-handed
Example Sentences
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The high-handed rejection of a treatment for Huntington’s disease shows why the biologics chief had to go.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026
Scottish Conservatives chairman Craig Hoy told the BBC that Mr Russell was "dismissing the concerns raised by Lisa Cameron in the most high-handed of ways."
From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023
Khrushchev was ousted in 1964 following a plot by fellow Communist Party leaders who accused him of rude, erratic and high-handed behaviour, policy failures and going against the teaching of Lenin.
From Reuters • Sep. 2, 2022
He's insufferable when he insists on playing the entitled gentleman – like when he's high-handed about Passepartout's valet duties – but becomes more brilliant and human with each challenge overcome.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2022
Never having been a high-handed or demanding girl, she had been able to make a little go a long way.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
