Heavy-handed meaning

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Cruel, oppressive, or tyrannical.
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Clumsy; awkward.
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Tactless; indiscreet.
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Oppressive; harsh.
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Without a light touch; clumsy or tactless.
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Alternative form of heavy-handed.
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Clumsy, awkward; hence, excessive.

Do not be too heavy-handed with the salt.

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Extreme; unnecessarily forceful.

They issued a heavy-handed new censorship law.

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Heavy-handed Sentence Examples

  • heavy-handed approach.

  • heavy-handed attempts at irony.

  • heavy-handed detailed regulation.

  • heavy-handed actions of Scotland Yard have made sure that for the foreseeable future we certainly won't have one.

  • STONE during 1961, a rather heavy-handed melodrama starring Vivian Leigh.

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