HEAVY-HANDED • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Heavy-handed

... 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