high-handedly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From high-handed +‎ -ly.

Adverb[edit]

high-handedly (comparative more high-handedly, superlative most high-handedly)

  1. In a high-handed manner.
    • 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book XX., page 267
      "May heaven," answered Ulysses, "requite to them the wickedness with which they deal high-handedly in another man's house without any sense of shame."

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