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