heavy-handed (adj.)

  1. 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

    [ Syn: bumbling , bungling , butterfingered , ham-fisted , ham-handed , handless , left-handed ]

  2. unjustly domineering; incensed at the governments heavy-handed economic policies; a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition

    [ Syn: roughshod ]

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