high-handedly

adv

high-handedly

adv

Etymology From high-handed + -ly.

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

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