heavy-handed
Speech parts
1. heavy-handed - Adjective
2. heavy-handed - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
unjustly domineering
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Examples
a bumbling mechanic
a bungling performance
ham-handed governmental interference
could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature
incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies
a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition