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

Students will no longer tolerate a procrustean system of education.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Porter score has been excised from several disparate musicals and fitted with procrustean zeal to the Barry play.

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 The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis