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High-handedness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being high-handed. uncountable

    "I had had no opportunity as yet of passing on Poirot’s message to Lawrence. But now, as I strolled out on the lawn, still nursing a grudge against my friend’s high-handedness, I saw Lawrence on the croquet lawn, aimlessly knocking a couple of very ancient balls about, with a still more ancient mallet."

  2. 2
    overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors wordnet

Etymology

From high-handed + -ness.

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