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heavy-handed |
1 definition found From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: heavy-handed adj 1: not skillful in physical movement 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 [syn: {bumbling}, {bungling}, {butterfingered}, {ham-fisted}, {ham-handed}, {handless}, {left-handed}] 2: unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition" [syn: {roughshod}]
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