Example sentences for: high-handed

How can you use “high-handed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Still, substantial contributors to N. & Q . took issue with what they perceived as a rather high-handed attitude:

  • In the same year, hatred of the high-handed Tory oligarchy in Upper Canada provoked a rebellion among small farmers and tradesmen beset by economic depression.

  • The most high-handed moment of his presidency--the attempt to pack the Supreme Court in 1937--is made the worse by his almost insane assertion that the Supreme Court was one of the "three horses" pulling the New Deal "plow."

  • Within a year, the high-handed Resident in Perak, James Birch, was assassinated after brazen efforts to impose direct British government.


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