ironhanded
See also: iron-handed and iron handed
English
Alternative forms
- iron-handed
- iron handed
Etymology
iron + handed
Adjective
ironhanded (comparative more ironhanded, superlative most ironhanded)
- Strict and dictatorial; exercising ruthless control; iron-fisted.
- 2010, Tibor Iván Berend, Europe Since 1980, →ISBN, page 124:
- Nationalist upheaval consumed Yugoslavia after the death of Tito, the ironhanded unifier.
- 2011, W Paul Vogt, SAGE Quantitative Research Methods, →ISBN, page 7:
- He was an “ironhanded father-figure” (C. Reid, 1998, p. 216). This ironhanded aspect sometimes went too far, like when he forced Erich Lehmann to resign his editorship of Annals of Mathematical Statistics.
- 2014, Jane Bluestein, Managing 21st Century Classrooms: How do I avoid ineffective classroom management practices?, →ISBN, page 3:
- In this traditional context, it's easy to assume that anything short of an ironhanded, authoritarian attitude toward discipline is flat-out permissive, although this common belief is not remotely true.
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