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