high-handedly
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See also: highhandedly
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From high-handed + -ly.
Adverb[edit]
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
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
in a high-handed manner