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heavy-handed in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
    "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
    bumbling  bungling  butterfingered  ham-fisted  ham-handed  handless  heavy-handed  left-handed 
  2. unjustly domineering
    "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
    heavy-handed  roughshod 
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heavy-handed in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (adjective) excessive/Excessive.
  2. (adjective) extreme/Extreme; unnecessarily forceful.
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