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