high-handed
adjectiveUsing power without proper regard for other people's rights or concerns.
Disregarding others' rights
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Clear all filtersUsing power without proper regard for other people's rights or concerns.
Disregarding others' rights
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To make a feature more noticeable or emphasize its importance.
The highest point or culminating stage of something.
Showing a careless or dismissive attitude toward an important matter.
The highest or most intense point in a sequence, especially in a story.
The final or highest point of a process.
Trying to control others in an overbearing or arbitrary way.
Overbearingly controlling
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Overflowing with cheerful energy and enthusiasm.
Overflowing with enthusiasm
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Filled with great joy or pride.
Filled with joy
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Prominent and highly respected in a field.
Prominent and respected
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To raise someone or something in rank, esteem, or praise.
Raised to a high position or filled with elevated joy.
High in rank
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Unreasonably high or excessive, especially in cost or demand.
An abundance of lively energy, enthusiasm, or joy.
Overflowing with energy, joy, or enthusiasm.
Highly fertile or productive, including in ideas.
Very high or elevated; figuratively, ambitious, noble, or expressed with superiority.
Very high
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Elaborately decorated or detailed.
Trying to dominate others in an excessively forceful or arrogant way.
Excessively domineering
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Trying to appear more important, cultured, or impressive than justified.
Producing a large quantity of work or results.
Easily noticed, important, or well known in a particular setting.
Important or well known
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Less dense than usual; also elevated or remote from ordinary experience.
Low in density
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The art of effective expression; also language criticized as impressive but lacking substance.
Effective expression
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