Heavy-handed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  heavy-handed \heavy-handed\ adj.
     1. same as {ham-fisted}.
  
     Syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted,
          ham-handed, handless, left-handed.
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. unjustly harsh or domineering; as, incensed at the
        government's heavy-handed economic policies.
  
     Syn: harsh, roughshod.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  heavy-handed
       adj 1: not skillful in physical movement 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 government's
          heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who
          rode roughshod over all opposition" [syn: {roughshod}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "heavy-handed":
     autocratic, awkward, bungling, clumsy, despotic, dictatorial,
     domineering, graceless, harsh, imperious, inept, magisterial,
     maladroit, oppressive, overbearing, severe, tyrannical,
     ungraceful