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
Students will no longer tolerate a procrustean system of education.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity.
From Time Magazine Archive
That of Aytoun was formed in the schools, principally modeled by masters—made to fit a procrustean bed—and was, therefore, eminently artificial.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
