high-handed in English

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1. He wants to be seen as less bossy and high-handed.

2. Some treated their staff in a high-handed and tyrannical way.

3. Their attitude towards the masses was condescending, high-handed and ultimately dictatorial.

4. Bossy has many synonyms, such as pushy, overbearing, imperious, officious, high-handed, authoritarian, dictatorial, and controlling

5. Mr Brown said the planned charges were the last straw for customers already angry over banks' high-handed attitude.

6. And maybe, just maybe, that awareness could coalesce into a market force that rewards openness and accountability, and punishes arbitrary, high-handed behaviour.

7. The meeting was acrimonious, and Loudoun afterward wrote a letter to London harshly criticising Pownall's position, calling his ideas on governance "high-handed".

8. Adjective (Informal) domineering, lordly, arrogant, authoritarian, oppressive, hectoring, autocratic, dictatorial, coercive, imperious, overbearing, tyrannical, despotic, high-handed She remembers being a rather Bossy little girl.

9. "You have chosen to act at the instance and behest of (activist) Ms Medha Patkar and others in haste and in a high-handed arbitrary manner, " the statement said.