heavy-handed, adj.
freq. cnt. 1
freq. cnt. 1
lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless heavy-handed left-handed
sample sentences
"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
semantic pointers
similar to
unjustly domineering
<adj.all>
heavy-handed roughshod
sample sentences
"incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies""a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
semantic pointers
similar to