Usage examples (5)

• Adjective : hard-fisted revolutionists
• The question is whether Moscow's hardfisted policies are keeping that threat in check -- or fanning the resentments that could inflame it.
• They also proscribed the kulak, the able, hardheaded, hardfisted farmer who was richer than his neighbors and liked to see them poorer than himself.
• He weighed the hardfisted policies of his loyal Bedouin guard against his hope to ingratiate himself with his Palestinian subjects.