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

One official who was involved and spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid facing retribution said they were disgusted by the request’s “brazenness and the high-handed expectation of complicity.”

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2025

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

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