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heavy-handed
[ hev-ee-han-did ]
adjective
- oppressive; harsh:
a heavy-handed master.
- clumsy; graceless:
a heavy-handed treatment of the theme.
heavy-handed
adjective
- clumsy
- harsh and oppressive
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Derived Forms
- ˌheavy-ˈhandedness, noun
- ˌheavy-ˈhandedly, adverb
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Other Words From
- heavy-handed·ly adverb
- heavy-handed·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of heavy-handed1
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Example Sentences
The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.
So was the importance of protest itself, which he vowed to protect from the heavy-handed policies employed by his predecessors.
Some were funny, while some were more heavy handed slams of ISIS simply framed in comedic terms.
Heavy-handed police work like that carried out by Burge and, apparently, Evans, gets results.
She said Mars Hill “engages in heavy-handed discipline through a hierarchical structure.”
Here John was in charge of the blacks and under his heavy-handed rule the cases were rapidly stowed away.
It is the same fierce, hard-living, heavy-handed, very cunning service out of which the Navy as we know it to-day was born.
He asked, after a moment, "Don't you think that would be rather a heavy-handed way of dealing with the matter?"
Those heavy-handed mechanics in the district motor pool, for example.
"If Happy's ghost don't git to playin' music too much," he added with his heavy-handed wit.
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