adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The company has a reputation for being high-handed in its treatment of clients.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they will not understand a high-handed decision by the Florida Legislature to take the law into its own hands.
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His high-handed dismissal of an outspoken professor brought unwanted national attention to the struggling school.
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Mr Brown said the planned charges were the last straw for customers already angry over banks' high-handed attitude.
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Some treated their staff in a high-handed and tyrannical way.
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The high-handed way in which Washington dropped the idea on its Western partners accounts for some the hostile reaction it has received.
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Their attitude towards the masses was condescending, high-handed and ultimately dictatorial.
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These high-handed tactics were obviously risky, but they were a calculated risk.