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

In the midst of all this gloom, the U.A.W.'s smart, redheaded Walter P. Reuther stepped up with a typically procrustean solution.

From Time Magazine Archive

That psychic procrustean bed is being splintered by Ferraro's campaign.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is an error to suppose that beauty must be racked on a procrustean bed of formula.

From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge