high-ˈhandedly, adv.
[f. high-handed a. + -ly2.]
In a high-handed manner.
| 1898 N. Munro John Splendid xxi. 206 Seven fugitives of the clan that had come so high-handedly through their neighbourhood. 1927 Daily Express 26 Oct. 1/2 High-handedly putting a pistol to the heads of his opponents. 1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) 617 Freud..treated the findings of psychology almost as high-handedly as he did those of prehistory and culture history. |