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What does high-handedly mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a high-handed manner.
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Rather than exercise its discretion, the Commission seems to have acted completely high-handedly.
But she, Josie, is an insufferably smug New York psychotherapist who high-handedly dissolves her marriage.
The upshot is that the Senate report and the hearing show that JP Morgan treated its regulators high-handedly.
An objection that was held by a minority and high-handedly dismissed at the time of the Commission's establishment in 1969-1970, namely that of the agency's cost55, would more than 20 years later cause its downfall.
I am surprised that an organisation as big as the archdiocese did not wait until planning permission was granted, and has behaved so high-handedly and ignored the council.
She can't high-handedly abandon them and trigger our exit from the EU without parliament's agreement.

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