procrustean
Example Sentences
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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
At bottom, net neutrality has become a procrustean fetish.
Alas, antitrust’s procrustean prejudice against cooperative acts by competitors stands in the way.
There are historical and political reasons why Pakistan is what one writer has called a "procrustean hell".
From The Guardian
To compel the age to conform to the measure of his own conceptions he often found procrustean methods necessary.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
