heavy-handed








adjective

  1. oppressive; harsh: a heavy-handed master.
  2. clumsy; graceless: a heavy-handed treatment of the theme.

adjective

  1. clumsy
  2. harsh and oppressive
adj.

also heavyhanded, 1630s, originally “weary” or “clumsy;” from heavy (adj.) + handed. Sense of “overbearing” is first recorded 1883.

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