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