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

The media criticised him for what was described as high-handed behaviour and an overly lavish lifestyle.

From Reuters • May 5, 2023

Fogg was better but still quite annoying with how high-handed he was treating Passepartout, who is his valet.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2022

She wasn’t sure she liked Fabyan, whose high-handed ways reminded her of her father.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield