top-heavy

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Even without the metal knob, this extreme taper makes the stick decidedly top-heavy.

Modifies a noun

• structure: A creaking, top-heavy management structure was created - with our chairman seemingly at the center of every web.
• furniture: Many find it difficult to stand especially on the upper floors Furniture is shifted and top-heavy furniture may be overturned.
• and/or: Small, top-heavy and/or precariously supported objects may be shifted or fall down.
• bureaucracy: Might it not simply add a further layer to an already top-heavy aid bureaucracy?
• appearance: As it is, the device gives this slight tower a top-heavy appearance, almost looking like it is standing on legs!

Modifying Another Word

• little: I had to walk beside him to keep him steady, for he was still a little top-heavy.
• very: However, the IFA is a very top-heavy organization.
• too: It was quite hollow and far too top-heavy and has been replaced with a Tulip Tree which will be magnificent in its turn.
• so: Being so top-heavy, the IFA is perceived as representing the interests of members who are in senior posts within archeology.

Used with adjective complement

• get: Traditional grains, presented with that much food, get top-heavy, fall over and die.