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.
high-handed Meaning
high-handed (s)
given to haughty disregard of others
high-handed (a.)
Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.
Synonyms & Antonyms of high-handed
Synonyms:
- uppity
- assumptive
- dominant
- sniffy
- cavalier
- hifalutin
- authoritarian
- masterful
- supercilious
- smug
- haughty
- uppish
- peremptory
- superior
- high-and-mighty
- presumptuous
- chesty
- pompous
- domineering
- imperious
- huffy
- bumptious
- pretentious
- important
Antonyms:
- yielding
- unarrogant
- meek
- shrinking
- cringing
- shrinking
- acquiescent
- submissive
- deferential
- quiet
- self-critical
- mousey
- compliant
- unarrogant
- self-critical
- quiet
- unassertive
- unassertive
- unobtrusive
- demure
- unobtrusive
- introverted
- cringing
- unassuming
- mousey
- mousy
- deferential
- unaggressive
- unassuming
- introverted
- compliant
- demure
- unaggressive
- submissive
- acquiescent
- mousy
- meek
- yielding
Synonyms:
- lofty
- pontificating
- braggy
- huffish
- vain
- stiff-necked
- snobbish
- egoistical
- proud
- cocky
- complacent
- high-hat
- presuming
- bossy
- disdainful
- stuck-up
- conceited
- patronizing
- lordly
- swaggering
- vainglorious
- impertinent
- egotistic
- pontifical
- self-assertive
- impudent
- self-complacent
- narcissistic
- egotistical
- extraverted
- egoistic
- toplofty
- blustery
- blusterous
- snooty
- hubristic
- immodest
- self-asserting
- overweening
- snobby
- self-conceited
- saucy
- magisterial
- brash
- dominating
- self-centered
- boastful
- condescending
- uninhibited
- self-satisfied
- prideful
- egocentric
- highfalutin
- bombastic
- toploftical
Antonyms:
FAQs About the word high-handed
given to haughty disregard of othersOverbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.
arrogant, uppity, assumptive, dominant, sniffy,cavalier, hifalutin, authoritarian, masterful, supercilious
modest, unpretentious, lowly, shy, passive, timid, subdued, passive, humble, sheepish
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.
