heavy-handed English

Meaning heavy-handed meaning

What does heavy-handed mean?

heavy-handed

— adjective (= bumbling, bungling, ham-handed, handless) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands a bumbling mechanic a bungling performance ham-handed governmental interference could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature — Mary H. Vorse

— adjective (= roughshod) unjustly domineering incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition

Synonyms heavy-handed synonyms

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heavy-handed English » English

clumsy

awkward

roughshod

oppressive

left-handed

harsh

handless

ham-handed

ham-fisted

butterfingered

bungling

bumbling

brutal

unwieldy

untactful

unskilled

unshapely

unready

unportable

unmanageable

ungraceful

ungainly

undomestic

ponderous

maladroit

inelegant

highhanded

heavy-footed

graceless

cumbrous

cruel

criterionless

bulky

botchy

artless

arbitrary

arbitrarious