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

Mad dreams of superstates, militarism and the kind of procrustean idealism that makes preposterous demands and holds out impossible hopes for society are inevitable Grassian targets.

From Time Magazine Archive

The advertisements informed him that numbers of authors were abandoning that procrustean system; hopeless as he was, he might as well try his chance with a book which could be written in a few weeks.

From New Grub Street by Gissing, George