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highhandedness

n. The property of being high-handed.

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highhandedness

n. overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors [syn: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, lordliness]

Usage examples of "highhandedness".

Leaving me out merely emphasises the counter-revolutionary highhandedness that lies behind the attack on Lenin, Zinoviev and Kamenev.

The High Lord would have your hairless head for such highhandedness, and you know it.

The injustice and highhandedness of it all maddened meespecially since he himself always seemed to go out of his way to be attentive to the Daubreuils and was always suggesting that they should be asked to the house.