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

Khrushchev was ousted in 1964 following a plot by fellow Communist Party leaders who accused him of rude, erratic and high-handed behaviour, policy failures and going against the teaching of Lenin.

From Reuters • Sep. 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