high-handedly

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high-handedly

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From high-handed + -ly.

adverb more high-handedly · most high-handedly

  1. In a high-handed manner. "May heaven," answered Ulysses, "requite to them the wickedness with which they deal high-handedly in another man's house without any sense of shame."

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@misc{high_handedly_2026,
  title = {high-handedly},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/high-handedly},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}