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high-handed

adjective as in domineering

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Conservative hereditary peer Lord Strathclyde called the legislation a "high-handed, shoddy political act".

From BBC

But Idaho’s Republican legislators have been way too cavalier and high-handed about this problem, burying their heads in the sand and refusing to fix it.

But that relationship will always be hostage to events; either a flare-up in the South China Sea, or any other act by China seen as high-handed by the Vietnamese.

From BBC

The party has also been accused of legitimizing New Delhi’s high-handed militaristic policies there.

In countering misinformation, FDA also risks coming off as high-handed.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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