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
Scottish Conservatives chairman Craig Hoy told the BBC that Mr Russell was "dismissing the concerns raised by Lisa Cameron in the most high-handed of ways."
From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023
In countering misinformation, FDA also risks coming off as high-handed.
From Salon • Jul. 21, 2023
Britain did try that divorce once, in the mid-1600s, when parliamentary forces cut off the head of the high-handed King Charles I, and replaced him with a Commonwealth led by a politician-soldier named Oliver Cromwell.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023
No matter how high-handed he sounds giving advice or how much he bothers me, I would be a fool not to listen.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
