iron-handed
adjEtymology
From the idea of having an iron hand.
Definitions
Strict and dictatorial, exercising firm ruthless control.
- Here I am not primarily concerned with the long-term effects of such separation, about which the advocates of iron-handed rule in Poland have always written with great glee.
- I couldn't believe that iron-handed old tyrant would have a son waho cared for nothing but praying.
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