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heavy-handed
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heavy-handed in WordNet English dictionary
adjective
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
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
(adjective) excessive/Excessive.
(adjective) extreme/Extreme; unnecessarily forceful.
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