iron handed

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Adjective

iron handed (comparative more iron handed, superlative most iron handed)

  1. Misspelling of iron-handed.
    • 1987, Theodore Dreiser, Dreiser: Sister Carrie; Jennie Gerhardt; Twelve Men, →ISBN, page 785:
      The next consequence that will attend the adoption of this Constitution is, that from the ruins of the State Governments, will be produced one consolidated Government, which, from the nature of things, will be an iron handed despotism.
    • 1993, Bernard Bailyn, The Debate on the Constitution Part 1: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Stuggle over Ratification. Part One: September 1787 to February 1788, →ISBN:
      This consolidated Government will be an iron handed despotism.
    • 2007, Hiram Blunt, The High Priest of Prickly Bog, →ISBN, page 287:
      But to think that in his heyday, that sweet, pathetic old man had been quite the iron handed hierarch; hated and feared by all those who fell subject to his purview.

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