high-handed

Example Sentences

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The high-handed rejection of a treatment for Huntington’s disease shows why the biologics chief had to go.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

One official who was involved and spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid facing retribution said they were disgusted by the request’s “brazenness and the high-handed expectation of complicity.”

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2025

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 • Dec. 11, 2023

Draghi's sometimes high-handed manner has also won him enemies in the cabinet, well-placed government sources say, meaning only a few members of his coalition team tried to fight his corner as the vote progressed.

From Reuters • Feb. 2, 2022

Never having been a high-handed or demanding girl, she had been able to make a little go a long way.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White