high-handedly
Adverb

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."
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