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单词 high-handed
释义
high-handedˌhigh-ˈhanded adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The company has a reputation for being high-handed in its treatment of clients.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But they will not understand a high-handed decision by the Florida Legislature to take the law into its own hands.
  • His high-handed dismissal of an outspoken professor brought unwanted national attention to the struggling school.
  • Mr Brown said the planned charges were the last straw for customers already angry over banks' high-handed attitude.
  • Some treated their staff in a high-handed and tyrannical way.
  • The high-handed way in which Washington dropped the idea on its Western partners accounts for some the hostile reaction it has received.
  • Their attitude towards the masses was condescending, high-handed and ultimately dictatorial.
  • These high-handed tactics were obviously risky, but they were a calculated risk.
using your authority in an unreasonable way:  She resented his high-handed manner. high-handed and insensitive management decisionshigh-handedly adverbhigh-handedness noun [uncountable]
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