High-handed Definition

High-handed Sentence Examples

• I know you think he was high handed about it, but as your guardian, it was his responsibility to encourage you to get a good education.

• In 1777 Constantine Murusi was made voivode of Moldavia in the same high-handed fashion.

• The Jewish nobility at Jerusalem seized upon this high-handed action as a pretext for satisfying their jealousy of their Idumaean rulers.

• The revivals in Kentucky brought about differences which resulted in the high-handed exclusion of the revivalists.

• The tsar, as protector of the Germanic System, had already been so annoyed by the seizure of the duc d'Enghien on German territory, and by other high-handed actions against the Hanse cities, as to recall his ambassador from Paris.