Meanings of high-handedness in anglès

Some senior players shared his displeasure with the manager's selections and high-handedness.

Naturally, the people of Dingle are upset at this ministerial high-handedness.

For his high-handedness she would make him suffer in kind.

It will be construed as the usual high-handedness Europe employs in relation to Latin America.

Even the 'democratic interventionists' were angered by Wilson's high-handedness.

Much as she resented his high-handedness, Alex Merrick's warnings had given her a wake-up call.

Marian is delightful, with her waywardness and high-handedness; and Mrs. Owen likes originals, not feeble imitations.

Some of the families running these businesses have been accused of high-handedness and acting with impunity.

As far as he was concerned, this carnage was the willful result of political high-handedness and inertia.

It is mistaken to believe that Nature will continue to put up with the high-handedness of the city.

This did not go unnoticed by the English barons, whose resentment about taxation and royal high-handedness continued to simmer.

I can't help feeling there is something of this boggling high-handedness to the idea of the joint World Cup bid.

For all his striding autocracy and high-handedness there was something naïve and childish about him that clutched at her heart.

But because we want this for all of humanity, we oppose injustice, aggression and the high-handedness of some countries, he said.

To hide her irritation at that familiar high-handedness, Kiska looked away, to where sacks of some sort of dried leaves sat slumped and threadbare.

He was nearly always by her side, driving off other devotees when he chose with a cool high-handedness which sometimes amused, sometimes infuriated Tony.