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 ● Sep. 21, 2021
You're trying to fit me into this procrustean notion that you have of me.
From Time ● Jul. 22, 2010
Fiction would have to yield to his procrustean devices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Students will no longer tolerate a procrustean system of education.
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 Joost van den Vondel
