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High-handedly is how you talk about the *way* someone uses their power, not the kind of person they are. If a manager high-handedly cancels the meeting, they did it from above, without asking, as if other people’s time did not count. Same idea as high-handed — using authority in an unreasonable way — but stuck onto the verb. It still sounds a little formal, and it still never means something good. You will hear it in news and in complaints more than at the dinner table.
專橫地、霸道地
組成From high-handed + -ly (in that manner).
同家族的字
- high-handedthe adjective this adverb is built from
- high-handednessthe matching noun
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
high-handedlyadv
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In a high-handed manner.
- "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."
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。