high-handed

2 definitions found

high-handed - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  High-handed \High"-hand`ed\, a.
     Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a
     high-handed act.
     [1913 Webster]

high-handed - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  high-handed
      adj 1: given to haughty disregard of others [syn: cavalier,
             high-handed]