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
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
Iron- bound, impersonal ethics, the procrustean bed of rules, he soon saw at their true value as the deification of averages.
From Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Stevenson, Robert Louis
