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Significados de high-handed en inglés

Given to haughty disregard of others.

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Uso de high-handed en inglés
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The crowd detected something humorous in my high-handed sentence and laughed sarcastically.
Tell England / A Study in a Generation
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Their destitution was due fully to the high-handed plunder of the city.
Down with the Cities!
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No such high-handed measures are advocated here with regard to the sparrow.
Birds in Town & Village
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It's this high-handed brand of yobbishness that has drawn most public opprobrium.
The Guardian
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Perhaps Nina suspected that something about his high-handed domestic readjusting was unusual.
Harriet and the Piper
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However, high-handed monarchical manners play less well these days with the French public.
Reuters
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I suppose your intentions were good, but it was intolerably high-handed.
Love- from his point of view!
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Ms Quinn's management is regarded as dynamic in some quarters, high-handed in others.
The Irish Times
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She knew she should have protested his high-handed treatment of her.
The devil wears plaid
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That now was not the time to be high-handed and miserly.
Too wicked to kiss
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Again Castagnos pleaded for his captive, but his high-handed officers were still dissatisfied.
Chatterbox, 1906
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Not until I have an explanation of this-this-singular, high-handed proceeding, she replied, firmly.
Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society
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I was mostly just annoyed he was being so damned high-handed about it.
Fortune's Pawn
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Their honest concern for her health had been far different from Gareth's high-handed superiority.
The devil she knows
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Inevitably, however, this high-handed approach merely alienated convenient whipping boys such as Nick Kyrgios.
News.com.au
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Mr Tabaiwalu says the process has been high-handed and it pre-empts the constitutional process.
Radio NZ
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