procrustean

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If you’re the parent of a child with special needs who’s felt the cold procrustean hands of the public school system, you know what this father is up against.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

You're trying to fit me into this procrustean notion that you have of me.

From Time • Jul. 22, 2010

Like so many before it, the procrustean Hearts and Minds began as a warrior; it ends as a casualty.

From Time Magazine Archive

He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity.

From Time Magazine Archive

To compel the age to conform to the measure of his own conceptions he often found procrustean methods necessary.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den