Example Sentences

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Geoengineering experiments carried out high-handedly or without due respect for sensible concerns would be damaging.

From Economist • Dec. 11, 2014

For three decades Premier Hun Sen has ruled the nation high-handedly.

From Forbes • Oct. 27, 2014

But to Joan, it’s just another man high-handedly taking away her agency and expecting to be thanked for it.

From Time • May 7, 2013

Unilaterally and high-handedly, I've omitted those books that delighted them but bored me comatose.

From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2011

In his first letter, that unsatisfactory letter in which he gave so few details about finding Ann, he had said quite high-handedly that he was going to look after things himself.

From The Visioning by Glaspell, Susan