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