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Meanings of high-handedness in anglès
Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.
Synonyms
Examples for "arrogance"
Examples for "arrogance"
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Lucky said that the arrogance of Europe belittled the beliefs of millions.
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The result: an arrogance that makes colleagues unwilling to work with you.
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This is yet another sign of arrogance from this government, Goldsmith said.
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Precisely identifying the point when that confidence tipped into arrogance is difficult.
5
Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.
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The haughtiness of these ecclesiastical princes drove them to the proudest humility.
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But the more they humbled themselves, the higher was his haughtiness raised.
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And, when the prayer was over, he said with his old haughtiness:
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She dresses well and carries herself with a kind of sweet haughtiness.
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He had lost somewhat of his assurance, his pride and overbearing haughtiness.
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To think otherwise takes the hauteur of a 1950s East Berlin apparatchik.
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There was a subtle hauteur in the voice; it subdued Kitty's inquisitiveness.
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She has neither airs nor hauteur; you will be marvellously well received.
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She stalked off with as much hauteur as her arthritis would allow.
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An air of studied hauteur and indifference as they approached the corner.
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All the assumptions of an essential lordliness remain-andnone of the duties.
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With the innate lordliness of a brother he already put it down to jealousy.
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Dom Manuel smiled, and you saw that he retained at least his former lordliness.
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But Josephine felt nothing humiliating in his lordliness.
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The thing of importance is everywhere the individual who is trying to show off his lordliness.
Usage of high-handedness in anglès
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Some senior players shared his displeasure with the manager's selections and high-handedness.
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Naturally, the people of Dingle are upset at this ministerial high-handedness.
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For his high-handedness she would make him suffer in kind.
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It will be construed as the usual high-handedness Europe employs in relation to Latin America.
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Even the 'democratic interventionists' were angered by Wilson's high-handedness.
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Much as she resented his high-handedness, Alex Merrick's warnings had given her a wake-up call.
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Marian is delightful, with her waywardness and high-handedness; and Mrs. Owen likes originals, not feeble imitations.
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Some of the families running these businesses have been accused of high-handedness and acting with impunity.
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As far as he was concerned, this carnage was the willful result of political high-handedness and inertia.
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It is mistaken to believe that Nature will continue to put up with the high-handedness of the city.
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This did not go unnoticed by the English barons, whose resentment about taxation and royal high-handedness continued to simmer.
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I can't help feeling there is something of this boggling high-handedness to the idea of the joint World Cup bid.
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For all his striding autocracy and high-handedness there was something naïve and childish about him that clutched at her heart.
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But because we want this for all of humanity, we oppose injustice, aggression and the high-handedness of some countries, he said.
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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.
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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.
Translations for high-handedness
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