heavy handed in English

adjective

1

clumsy or insensitive.

this heavy-handed prose is merely tiresome

synonyms: clumsy, awkward, maladroit, unhandy, inept, unskillful, ham-handed, ham-fisted, all thumbs, insensitive, oppressive, overbearing, high-handed, harsh, stern, severe, tyrannical, despotic, ruthless, merciless, tactless, undiplomatic, inept

adjective

clumsy, awkward, maladroit, unhandy, inept, unskillful, ham-handed, ham-fisted, all thumbs
insensitive, oppressive, overbearing, high-handed, harsh, stern, severe, tyrannical, despotic, ruthless, merciless, tactless, undiplomatic, inept
left-handed, butterfingered, handless, bumbling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, bungling
roughshod

Use "heavy handed" in a sentence

1. He is never arbitrary or heavy-handed.

2. These voices will not be silenced by such heavy-handed tactics.”

3. Your uncle is heavy-handed when he speaks to others about the heart.

4. • Each key has a full travel with good Cushioning for the heavy handed

5. Heavy-handed and unsubtle, it tends to detract Annoyingly from, rather than enhance, changes in mood

6. "It's very heavy-handed of the OMB to come in and regulate peer review, " Waxman charges.

7. Admitting the coastguard was heavy - handed, it promised to ensure that legal claims for compensation ran smoothly.

8. The government's reaction to confrontations was seen to be one-sided and heavy-handed in favour of unionists.

9. Bamboozled is too heavy-handed in its satire and comes across as more messy and overwrought than biting.

10. The Aforementioned and heavy-handed passage aside, Hecht's film should be commended for its treatment of potentially incendiary elements

11. But the vigil ended with Clashes between police and those attending, and many questioned whether the police force was too heavy-handed.

12. King Assan is said to be a heavy-handed ruler, there were vague and unpleasant rumors about him and his son Rugnor

13. And the military, despite its intermittently heavy-handed responses, is heedful of public sentiment to a degree unprecedented under the old regime.

14. Crossing Over is flagrant and heavy-handed about a situation that deserves more deliberate treatment, and joins its characters with coincidences that strain believability.

15. The earliest examples of this style in Sicily lacked individuality and were typically heavy-handed pastiches of buildings seen by Sicilian visitors to Rome, Florence, and Naples.

16. Princeton's WordNet (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed (adj) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

17. An agent or action that harms or ruins the value or success of something: "the heavy-handed, moralistic parenting that was the Blight of the traditional family" (Theodore Roszack).

18. Spring's book doesn't so much tell the story of business's courtship of the schools as it does business's 80-year heavy-handed and relentless Browbeating of the schools into a corporate-friendly submission

19. Throughout the Chinese campaign, the player is occasionally made to utilize heavy-handed tactics such as leveling the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre after it becomes a GLA base and destroying the Three Gorges Dam to release a flood on GLA forces.

20. ‘The irony gets a little heavy-handed - one of the Baldies discovers love in the hospital cafeteria - but the sentiment is genuine.’ ‘For the most part, the Etech conference was made up of two groups: the graybeards and the Baldies (alternatively the t-shirt brigade).’

21. Bungling: 1 adj lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands “a Bungling performance” Synonyms: bumbling , butterfingered , ham-fisted , ham-handed , handless , heavy-handed , left-handed maladroit not adroit adj showing lack of skill or aptitude “a Bungling workman” Synonyms: clumsy , fumbling , incompetent unskilled not having

22. Backgammon is used as both a plot device and a metaphor, refocusing Sashko's mind and emblematic of honesty and Correctitude: "We don't play for money, only for honor." Komandarev isn't heavy-handed with his symbolism, using the game as much for the sense of …

23. A heavy-handed government that wishes to use technology to surveil its own citizens or control the narrative by Curtailing their free speech and expression is not interested in using technology for the good but merely to control, in such scenarios comparisons with the Chinese authoritarian internet are natural.

24. On multiple viewings, in addition to the allegorical weight of gold (actual weight: 28 grams per Avoirdupois ounce), “Untitled” also seems to carry a critique of a president* who would unironically gild his Betowered home and then plan to build a wall upon America’s southernmost border in a gross and heavy-handed attempt to solve a