Ironhanded
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ironhanded is an adjective meaning Alternative form of iron-handed.
Meaning
Alternative form of iron-handed.
Example Sentences
Nationalist upheaval consumed Yugoslavia after the death of Tito, the ironhanded unifier.
In this traditional context, it's easy to assume that anything short of an ironhanded, authoritarian attitude toward discipline is flat-out permissive, although this common belief is not remotely true.
He was an “ironhanded father-figure” (C. Reid, 1998, p. 216). This ironhanded aspect sometimes went too far, like when he forced Erich Lehmann to resign his editorship of Annals of Mathematical Statistics.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cruel, ironfisted, hard-handed, stronghanded, highhanded, hardfisted.
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