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Heavy-handed   /hˈɛvi-hˈændəd/   Listen
Heavy-handed

adjective
1.
Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.  Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, left-handed.  "A bungling performance" , "Ham-handed governmental interference" , "Could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"
2.
Unjustly domineering.  Synonym: roughshod.  "A manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"






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