ironfisted
Example Sentences
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Cassandra, the de-facto leader of the teens, is tenuously ironfisted.
From The New Yorker • May 22, 2019
Leonard Nimoy did it with a memorable turn as a goateed, ironfisted Mr. Spock in an original "Star Trek" episode that sent the Enterprise crew into a more bloodthirsty parallel universe.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2013
Hard-working and ironfisted, he is quick to jail even his own Cabinet ministers if they step out of line.
From Time Magazine Archive
Szell's ironfisted discipline brooked no contradiction, and the musicians played for him as if their livelihoods -- if not their lives -- depended on it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The treaty would transfer so many powers -- over taxes, natural resources, even the state security apparatus -- to the republics as to make restoring ironfisted Kremlin control of the whole country impossible.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
