high-handed (comparative more high-handed, superlative most high-handed)
- Using power or authority without proper consideration for the feelings or rights of others.
2024 May 4, Simon Tisdall, “Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwards”, in The Observer[1], →ISSN:Critics accuse her [von der Leyen] of serious missteps over the pandemic, the Gaza war, alleged cronyism, – and of having a high-handed manner.
using power or authority without proper consideration for the feelings or rights of others
- Bulgarian: деспотичен (bg) (despotičen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 专横的
- Finnish: piittaamaton (fi), omavaltainen
- French: cavalier (fr), despotique (fr) m, arrogant (fr) m, autoritaire (fr) m, impérieux (fr) m, hautain (fr) m, morgue (fr) m, autocratique (fr) m
- German: eigenmächtig (de), selbstherrlich (de)
- Russian: своево́льный (ru) (svojevólʹnyj)
- Slovak: panovačný m, despotický m
- Spanish: despótico (es), arrogante (es), autoritario (es)
- Swedish: egenmäktig (sv)
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