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Heavy-handed   /hˈɛvi-hˈændəd/   Listen
Heavy-handed

adjective
1.
Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.  Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, left-handed.  "A bungling performance" , "Ham-handed governmental interference" , "Could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"
2.
Unjustly domineering.  Synonym: roughshod.  "A manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"






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"Heavy-handed" Quotes from Famous Books



... she loved to have her heavy-handed old Daddy near her, was a kind of miracle, a concession for which I could not ...
— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland

... that they are the "Christ of Nations."... I wish they would inquire whether there might not be a Cartouche of nations. Cartouche had many gallant qualities—had many fine ladies begging locks of his hair while the indispensable gibbet was preparing. Better he should obey the heavy-handed Teutsch police officer, who has him by the windpipe in such frightful manner, give up part of his stolen goods, altogether cease to be a Cartouche, and try to become again a Chevalier Bayard. All Europe does not come to the rescue ...
— Thomas Carlyle - Biography • John Nichol



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