Meaning of ironhanded | Babel Free
Definitions
Adjective. [B2]
Examples
“Nationalist upheaval consumed Yugoslavia after the death of Tito, the ironhanded unifier.”
“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.”
“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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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