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high-handedly

high-handedly adverb: in a high-handed manner.

Adverb

high-handedly (comparative more high-handedly, superlative 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."1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book XX., page 267

Forms of high-handedly

comparativemore high-handedly
superlativemost high-handedly

Origin of high-handedly

From high-handed + -ly.

Questions about high-handedly

What does high-handedly mean?
High-handedly means in a high-handed manner.
What part of speech is high-handedly?
High-handedly is an adverb.

Words near high-handedly in the dictionary

  1. high-go
  2. high-grade
  3. high-grown
  4. high-growth
  5. high-handed
  6. high-handedly
  7. high-handedness
  8. high-hanging fruit
  9. high-hat
  10. high-hats
  11. high-hatted

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