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Procrustean

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Dictionary: Pro·crus·te·an  pro·crus·te·an (prō-krŭs'tē-ən) pronunciation
 
also adj.

Producing or designed to produce strict conformity by ruthless or arbitrary means.

[After Procrustes, a mythical Greek giant who stretched or shortened captives to make them fit his beds, from Latin Procrustēs, from Greek Prokroustēs, from prokrouein, hammer out, to stretch out : pro-, forth; see pro–2 + krouein, to beat.]


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marked by arbitrary often ruthless disregard of individual differences or special circumstances
 
 

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