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high-handed Definition


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high-handed
adj
    1. Overbearing and arrogant; arbitrary.
      Thesaurus: arbitrary, autocratic, bossy, overbearing, peremptory, imperious, tyrannical, willful, despotic, domineering, arrogant, oppressive.
Derivative: high-handedness
noun
    Derivative: high-handedly
    adverb
      Etymology: 17c.



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