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high-handed
1. Nan secretly thought Faith HAD done a awful thing, but she wasn't going to let Mary Vance run matters in this high-handed fashion
2. Moshe smiled with satisfaction at that: Lousma’s attitude was refreshing compared with the high-handed way of doing things common to the British administration
3. He pulverized his despotic pride, and high-handedness was reduced to nothing by one powerful blow
4. What they must _earn_, the grand ones, to be so confident and high-handed! And she found time to wonder, in the middle of much confusion of mind, whether one of Miles's sisters, while in the full blast of her prosperity, would be likely to accept either his ministrations or her own help
5. Fanny had thrust him in, with her orders and her high-handed interference
6. What for me was infinitely worse was the imperiousness, the despotism and high-handedness with which the government treated its subjects
7. bristled at his high-handedness; but, of course, there was no prior
8. It was well known that at the time that high-handed measures were taken in this country, an insurrection had taken place in Pennsylvania, commonly known by the name of the Hot-water Insurrection; that it occurred in consequence of the oppression of the law for the collection of a direct tax