hard-handed
adjective
oppressive or tyrannical; stern or cruel.
hardhanded
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a variation of
hard-handed.
Example Sentences
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But it is Trevor Howard, as Paul's hardhanded father, who gives the film's best performance.
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Tracy is a hardhanded Irish-American priest whose parish is a small French-owned island in the South Pacific.
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One national Communist who eluded the Stalin purges in Rumania was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, a hardhanded railroad worker turned revolutionary.
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And in the wake of his confrontation with his school board, he has found himself under a drumfire of criticism by other inner-city principals who take issue with his hardhanded style.
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Since his emergence as an iron-jawed, hardhanded dictator, Park has won Asian respect by moving slowly but surely toward civilian rule.
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