high-handed
Example Sentences
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High-handed Costello played straight into Sir Basil's hands by calling together a committee which ordered collection boxes set up in front of every church, Catholic or Protestant, in Eire.
From Time Magazine Archive
High-handed as such an act was, it was in harmony with the general system which Napoleon was pursuing elsewhere, and which had as yet stirred no national resistance.
From History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 by Green, John Richard
High-handed measures had failed of the anticipated effect.
From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Irving, Washington
High-handed, of course; but that's the race—the race.
From The Crown of Life by Gissing, George
High-handed however as the Archbishop's course had been, he felt dimly the approaching wreck.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard
