high-handedly Sentence Examples
- The boss treated his employees high-handedly, disregarding their opinions and concerns.
- The politician's high-handed speech alienated many voters who felt disrespected.
- The manager's high-handed decision to fire the team left them demoralized and resentful.
- The CEO's high-handed approach to negotiations resulted in a stalemate.
- The aristocrat's high-handed attitude towards his servants was infuriating.
- The teacher's high-handed punishment of students only served to create a climate of fear.
- The government's high-handed crackdown on dissent drew international condemnation.
- The bully's high-handed behavior made everyone in the school afraid of him.
- The police officer's high-handed treatment of the suspect led to widespread protests.
- The doctor's high-handed dismissal of the patient's concerns was both unprofessional and unethical.
high-handedly Meaning
high-handedly (r)
in a domineering high-handed manner
Synonyms & Antonyms of high-handedly
Synonyms:
- assumptive
- pretentious
- presumptuous
- supercilious
- uppish
- high-and-mighty
- bumptious
- peremptory
- important
- huffy
- imperious
- authoritarian
- hifalutin
- sniffy
- dominant
- pompous
- haughty
- cavalier
- superior
- masterful
- uppity
- smug
- domineering
- chesty
Antonyms:
- compliant
- submissive
- demure
- cringing
- self-critical
- unobtrusive
- mousey
- cringing
- unaggressive
- meek
- deferential
- compliant
- meek
- mousy
- shrinking
- submissive
- mousey
- introverted
- unassertive
- quiet
- quiet
- mousy
- shrinking
- introverted
- unarrogant
- unaggressive
- unassuming
- acquiescent
- unassuming
- deferential
- demure
- unarrogant
- acquiescent
- unassertive
- yielding
- unobtrusive
- self-critical
- yielding
Synonyms:
- immodest
- braggy
- blusterous
- highfalutin
- stuck-up
- lofty
- magisterial
- condescending
- overweening
- presuming
- snooty
- toploftical
- toplofty
- high-hat
- huffish
- egotistic
- egotistical
- pontificating
- egoistic
- impertinent
- patronizing
- complacent
- brash
- lordly
- self-assertive
- self-complacent
- pontifical
- self-conceited
- narcissistic
- snobby
- swaggering
- cocky
- dominating
- egoistical
- proud
- self-centered
- vain
- saucy
- disdainful
- self-satisfied
- uninhibited
- egocentric
- self-asserting
- hubristic
- bombastic
- impudent
- conceited
- boastful
- bossy
- snobbish
- prideful
- extraverted
- stiff-necked
- vainglorious
- blustery
Antonyms:
FAQs About the word high-handedly
in a domineering high-handed manner
arrogant, assumptive, pretentious, presumptuous, supercilious, uppish, high-and-mighty, bumptious, peremptory, important
diffident, unpretentious, bashful, lowly, shy, unpretentious, subdued, lowly, sheepish, timid
The boss treated his employees high-handedly, disregarding their opinions and concerns.
The politician's high-handed speech alienated many voters who felt disrespected.
The manager's high-handed decision to fire the team left them demoralized and resentful.
The CEO's high-handed approach to negotiations resulted in a stalemate.
