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heavy-handed

adjective

1 heavy-handed

Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.

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

Roget 699: unskillful etc. 698; inexpert; bungling etc. v.; awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit; ... show more

2 heavy-handed

Unjustly domineering:
— Incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies.

synonym: roughshod.


Moby thesaurus: autocratic, awkward, bungling, clumsy, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, graceless, harsh, imperious, inept, magisterial, maladroit, oppressive, overbearing, severe, tyrannical, ungraceful.

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