What is "highhanded"

Usage examples of "highhanded".

She obeyed this somewhat highhanded request, but only, she told herself, because he might wish to tell her something about her aunt.

She was tempted to dispute this highhanded remark, but instead she excused herself nicely and made her way over to the cottage, where she reassured Cat, changed rapidly into a skirt and sweater, topped them with her matching tweed coat, tied a scarf over her hair, caught up handbag and gloves, and flew up to the Lodge, all within the space of the ten minutes allotted to her.

She stopped and stared up at him, delight mixed with annoyance at his highhanded demands.

Caesar did the picking, though she had railed against his highhanded usurpation of a task she felt herself fully able to perform.