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high-handed

How to use high-handed in a sentence

Lessard's high-handed squelching of MacRae had thrown everything out of focus.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

Universal indignation spread through the colonies against this high handed measure of the British king and parliament.

We have failed entirely to find any sort of protest against such high-handed proceedings.

Well, the papers got out an extra edition with scare-heads about "Outrages" and "High-handed Lawlessness!"

"You've no right to take such high-handed action," snarled the master of the tug.

The worthy provincial determined to investigate this act, and to ask his Parisian cousin the reason of such high-handed measures.

Ever since Eleanor's high-handed departure she had been undergoing a metamorphosis.

QUINALICE HEGAN RICE

There is no question about his military ability, although his reputation was sullied by high-handed and arbitrary measures.

I reckon Jurgens'll find that his high-handed game o' his ain't all one-sided.

The records of Europe contain nothing more high-handed or shameful.

THE WAR UPON RELIGIONREV. FRANCIS A. CUNNINGHAM

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985