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What does high-handed mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word high-handed? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Using power or authority without proper consideration for the feelings or rights of others.
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If an employer has been unfair or high-handed in carrying out the discharge, the employee may be awarded additional damages.
At the council meeting, Labour's David Green said the decision had been high-handed and senseless.
This refusal to have an enquiry is one more high-handed response to the reasonable concerns of the law-abiding public.
As far as I am concerned it was a high-handed decision made without any regard for the feelings of the local people.
Indeed, some have even refused to simplify their results out of high-handed attitudes dressed up as professional principles.
She has a reputation as an arrogant, high-handed judge, but at least she presumably knows what she's doing.

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