Given to haughty disregard of others.
1 The crowd detected something humorous in my high - handed sentence and laughed sarcastically.
2 Their destitution was due fully to the high-handed plunder of the city.
3 No such high - handed measures are advocated here with regard to the sparrow.
4 It's this high - handed brand of yobbishness that has drawn most public opprobrium.
5 Perhaps Nina suspected that something about his high - handed domestic readjusting was unusual.
6 However, high - handed monarchical manners play less well these days with the French public.
7 I suppose your intentions were good, but it was intolerably high - handed .
8 Ms Quinn's management is regarded as dynamic in some quarters, high - handed in others.
9 She knew she should have protested his high - handed treatment of her.
10 That now was not the time to be high - handed and miserly.
11 Again Castagnos pleaded for his captive, but his high - handed officers were still dissatisfied.
12 Not until I have an explanation of this-this-singular, high - handed proceeding, she replied, firmly.
13 I was mostly just annoyed he was being so damned high - handed about it.
14 Their honest concern for her health had been far different from Gareth's high - handed superiority.
15 Inevitably, however, this high - handed approach merely alienated convenient whipping boys such as Nick Kyrgios.
16 Mr Tabaiwalu says the process has been high - handed and it pre-empts the constitutional process.
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