high-handedly

high-handedly

See also: highhandedly

English

Etymology

From high-handed +‎ -ly.

Adverb

high-handedly (comparative more high-handedly, superlative most high-handedly)

1. In a high-handed manner.
   • 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book XX., page 267

     "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."

Related terms

• high-handed

Translations

in a high-handed manner