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