procrustean

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If you’re the parent of a child with special needs who’s felt the cold procrustean hands of the public school system, you know what this father is up against.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

You're trying to fit me into this procrustean notion that you have of me.

From Time • Jul. 22, 2010

Fiction would have to yield to his procrustean devices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where the toe dared to protrude from the block, it is chopped off in procrustean fashion; a carnation sprouts from the gaping hole.

From Time Magazine Archive

Iron- bound, impersonal ethics, the procrustean bed of rules, he soon saw at their true value as the deification of averages.

From Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Stevenson, Robert Louis