high-handed
Example Sentences
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Triggering the administration’s nuclear response on Friday was Anthropic’s high-handed refusal to give the Defense Department carte blanche to use its technology as it sees fit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 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
The media criticised him for what was described as high-handed behaviour and an overly lavish lifestyle.
From Reuters • May 5, 2023
He's insufferable when he insists on playing the entitled gentleman – like when he's high-handed about Passepartout's valet duties – but becomes more brilliant and human with each challenge overcome.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2022
She wasn’t sure she liked Fabyan, whose high-handed ways reminded her of her father.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
