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
The Porter score has been excised from several disparate musicals and fitted with procrustean zeal to the Barry play.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has been criticised as too mechanical, as illogical in arrangement of classes, as presenting many incongruities in its divisions, as procrustean, as wholly inadequate in its classification of jurisprudence, etc.
From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Ainsworth Rand Spofford
