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Definition of High-handedly
1. Adverb. In a domineering high-handed manner. "He behaved high-handedly toward his employees"
Definition of High-handedly
1. Adverb. In a high-handed manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of High-handedly
Literary usage of High-handedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"660 " Out on it! great is the deed, and done high-handedly, Telemachus he and
his journey ! and we deemed it would not be. In despite of us all hath the ..."
2. Greeks in America: An Account of Their Coming, Progress, Customs, Living by Thomas Burgess (1913)
"The Pope Nicholas moreover, acting very high-handedly, excommunicates Photius.
The Easterns reject flatly the mixing-in of the Pope, s The first Pope to ..."
3. A History of My Time: Memoirs of Chancellor Pasquier by Etienne-Denis Pasquier, Edme Armand Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier (1893)
"... the more suspected, because he had so far refused to make his peace, and had
somewhat high-handedly broken off the negotiations which had been begun. ..."
4. Italy from 1494 to 1790 by Katharine Dorothea Ewart Vernon (1909)
"Once, when Spain high-handedly seized and granted to Prince Ludovisi the Principality
of Piombino, for which the Medici had always longed, ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1877)
"His own Colony, Victoria, acted rather high-handedly in this matter some years
ago with her senior sister, New South Wales. There were now, in fact, ..."
6. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"... such as obtained in Ducal Saxony, whence in 1573, on high-handedly assuming
the guardianship of the two sons left behind him by John William, ..."
7. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"... such as obtained in Ducal Saxony, whence in 1573, on high-handedly assuming
the guardianship of the two sons left behind him by John William, ..."
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