high-handed

Example Sentences

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Willis has increased her claim after NatWest's "high handed manner" in its response to the latest proceedings, a document filed with the court showed.

From Reuters • Nov. 28, 2022

With high handed dispatch, he breaks up an affair between his luxury-loving cousin and a fifth-rate actress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gladys was ready to cry with rage at this high handed act, but that was all the good it did her.

From The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)

The United States felt that Britain hardly treated them with the respect due to an independent nation, and indeed some of Britain's actions were fairly high handed.

From This Country of Ours by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

Added to these things she had, without the least knowledge of life, a vigorous and rather high handed confidence in her ability to meet life.

From Marching Men by Anderson, Sherwood