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

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

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

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