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HIGH-HANDEDNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
Synonyms:
arrogance; haughtiness; hauteur; high-handedness; lordliness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("high-handedness" is a kind of...):
pride; superbia (unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "high-handedness"):
condescension; disdainfulness; superciliousness (the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior)
contemptuousness (the manifestation of scorn and contempt)
hubris (overbearing pride or presumption)
domineeringness; imperiousness; overbearingness (the trait of being imperious and overbearing)
superiority (displaying a sense of being better than others)
snobbery; snobbishness; snobbism (the trait of condescending to those of lower social status)
Derivation:
high-handed (given to haughty disregard of others)
