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