high-handedness

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Noun
  • This arrogance is not just limited to tech titans.
    Christian Josi, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • These traits do not always show up as arrogance.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • However, in the wrong hands, being silent can signal disdain and superciliousness.
    Matteo Atti, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Rollins challenged the Brooks Family to a match at Wrestlepalooza, much to Becky’s disdain.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Trump’s disdain for foreign-policy precedent and erratic flip-flops will continue to open opportunities for Xi and Putin to expand their global influence at Washington’s expense.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But despite his global dominance, Armani — who died at age 91 on September 4 — will be honored for the last time in a private funeral ceremony away from the spotlight and near his birthplace.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The dominance of Wilson, Langley and Moroney will be welcomed as a signpost for the many who have championed the underdog role of women in country in recent years.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The kitchen borrowed the ingredient worship of Chez Panisse, but not its reverence for simplicity; the fancy culture-mash pizza of Spago, but not its Eurocentric hauteur; the cheffy precision of the French Laundry, but not its fussy formality.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
  • There was some explanation for his elusiveness, quite apart from the everyday hauteur of the fashion industry.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But their methods could often cross over into condescension, Palmer argues, mirroring the attitudes of imperialism that the Soviets often criticized.
    Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Donald Trump’s political allies have long insisted, with more than a little condescension, that the press should take the President seriously, but not literally.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 19 July 2025
Noun
  • After all, as Everett reminds us with comic pomposity: The journey matters.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 July 2025
  • Right now, his focus is on doing eight shows a week, while injecting a Big Easy swing to the Major General’s pomposity.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Any claim for Swift’s genius should reckon with her lapses into imprecision and pompousness.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
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“High-handedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high-handedness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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