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• n  overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

• The ousted President, elected with 87% of the vote only seven months earlier, had seen his popularity collapse amid charges of repression and high-handedness.
• That's why there is much lingering resentment across the West at the perceived high-handedness of the Clinton Administration-particularly .
• But the overriding issue, in the view of the Daily Texan, the student paper, was not Rogers' qualifications but the high-handedness of the regents and the "need for academic .

• arrogance
• haughtiness
• hauteur
• lordliness

Quotes

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• Nawaz Sharif in Thaindian.com (blog)
  Sharif said that his party would fight a war against the "prevailing system and high-handedness of the government".
• Ghulam Nabi Azad in Expressindia.com
  Azad said, "I have vowed to give you a khushhal state devoid of corruption, malpractices, high-handedness and injustice. My only demand for this is to give me a warm hand to accomplish the stupendous task."