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
Most cunning of all, Deng has stretched the procrustean bed of Maoism to fit his own needs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fiction would have to yield to his procrustean devices.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was exceedingly emotional and intellectual; and the procrustean bed of a creed would have been intolerable torture to him.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert
