high-handedly
See also: highhandedly
English
Etymology
From high-handed + -ly.
Adverb
high-handedly (comparative more high-handedly, superlative most high-handedly)
- 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."
- 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book XX., page 267
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Translations
in a high-handed manner
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