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high-handedness

NOUN
  1. overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

How To Use high-handedness In A Sentence

  • But right from the start, Cooper's hypersensitive temperament and extreme high-handedness took their toll.
  • The thing was done circumspectly, mind you -- nae high-handedness -- but Belle's folk were about Glen Scaur, a droll wandering band, claiming great descent from Eastern folk, and with horses and dogs and spaewife among them; and Belle (as they will be calling her) was the daughter o 'the Chief, a very proud man. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • The 70-year-old writing, yoga and meditation teacher says she has been taken aback by what she calls the couple's "high-handedness," demonstrated not only by the scope of their project but in the way they cleared brush to mark their property lines and expanded a road cutting up the hillside. A Family's Adventures Underground
  • Carolingian rule and culture were familiar in many ways; it was its flavour of high-handedness and moral urgency that might give offence to the inhabitants of Italy.
  • Carolingian rule and culture were familiar in many ways; it was its flavour of high-handedness and moral urgency that might give offence to the inhabitants of Italy.
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