high-handed Antonyms
Strongest:
- passive
- diffident
- lowly
- humble
- subdued
- timid
- shy
- lowly
- shy
- timid
- modest
- subdued
- passive
- sheepish
- bashful
- sheepish
- bashful
- modest
- unpretentious
- diffident
- unpretentious
- humble
Strong:
- meek
- unarrogant
- mousey
- unassuming
- acquiescent
- unobtrusive
- introverted
- shrinking
- self-critical
- mousey
- self-critical
- unassuming
- mousy
- quiet
- cringing
- quiet
- submissive
- shrinking
- meek
- compliant
- unaggressive
- compliant
- demure
- deferential
- unassertive
- yielding
- deferential
- cringing
- acquiescent
- unassertive
- unobtrusive
- yielding
- unarrogant
- submissive
- demure
- introverted
- unaggressive
- mousy
Weak:
Strongest:
Strong:
- supercilious
- huffy
- pompous
- high-and-mighty
- superior
- cavalier
- masterful
- dominant
- peremptory
- uppity
- pretentious
- chesty
- uppish
- authoritarian
- presumptuous
- smug
- sniffy
- domineering
- imperious
- hifalutin
- bumptious
- important
- assumptive
- haughty
Weak:
- self-conceited
- impudent
- prideful
- presuming
- huffish
- self-satisfied
- vainglorious
- vain
- lofty
- brash
- egotistic
- swaggering
- pontificating
- snooty
- blustery
- overweening
- disdainful
- self-complacent
- self-assertive
- complacent
- stuck-up
- self-asserting
- patronizing
- conceited
- snobbish
- highfalutin
- toplofty
- saucy
- lordly
- self-centered
- bombastic
- high-hat
- boastful
- egocentric
- egoistical
- proud
- snobby
- egotistical
- magisterial
- cocky
- extraverted
- condescending
- narcissistic
- stiff-necked
- hubristic
- braggy
- blusterous
- impertinent
- bossy
- immodest
- egoistic
- dominating
- toploftical
- uninhibited
- pontifical
Meaning of high-handed
high-handed (s)
given to haughty disregard of others
high-handed (a.)
Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.
high-handed Sentence Examples
- The manager's high-handed dismissal of employee concerns sparked resentment within the team.
- The government's high-handed handling of the crisis only worsened the situation.
- The teacher's high-handed approach to discipline created a hostile learning environment.
- The company's high-handed policies led to numerous lawsuits.
- The police officer's high-handed attitude toward the suspect drew criticism.
- The boss's high-handed manner made it difficult for employees to approach him.
- The politician's high-handed promises rang hollow in the wake of his failure to deliver.
- The landlord's high-handed eviction notice left the tenants scrambling for shelter.
- The judge's high-handed verdict shocked the courtroom.
- The parent's high-handed treatment of their child stifled their creativity.
FAQs About the word high-handed
given to haughty disregard of othersOverbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.
arrogant, supercilious, huffy, pompous, high-and-mighty, superior,cavalier, masterful, dominant, peremptory
passive, diffident, lowly,humble, subdued, timid, shy, lowly, shy, timid
The manager's high-handed dismissal of employee concerns sparked resentment within the team.
The government's high-handed handling of the crisis only worsened the situation.
The teacher's high-handed approach to discipline created a hostile learning environment.
The company's high-handed policies led to numerous lawsuits.
