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adjective

heavy-handed adj.

Same as ham-fisted.

Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, left-handed.

Unjustly harsh or domineering; as, incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies.

Synonyms: harsh, roughshod.

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"Heavy-handed" Quotes from Famous Books

... intervals when he regretted his haste to reach Skinner's by this shorter cut, and began to bitterly attribute it to his desire to serve Collinson. Ah, yes! it would be fine indeed, if just as he were about to clutch the prize he should be sacrificed through the ignorance and stupidity of this heavy-handed moralist at his side! But it was not until, through that moralist's guidance, they climbed a steep acclivity to a second ridge, and were comparatively safe, that he began to feel ashamed of his surly silence or surlier interruptions. And Collinson, either through ...

— In a Hollow of the Hills • Bret Harte

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Words linked to "Heavy-handed" : bungling, handless, domineering, maladroit, roughshod, ham-handed