ironhanded

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1. alternativeAlternative form of iron-handed.

   Nationalist upheaval consumed Yugoslavia after the death of Tito, the ironhanded unifier.

   2010, Tibor Iván Berend, Europe Since 1980, →ISBN, page 124

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   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.

   2011, W Paul Vogt, SAGE Quantitative Research Methods, →ISBN, page 7

   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.

   2014, Jane Bluestein, Managing 21st Century Classrooms: How do I avoid ineffective classroom management practices?, →ISBN, page 3