Synonym: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, left-handed, roughshod. Similar words: with a heavy heart, heavy, heavy duty, heavyweight, heavy traffic, heavy industry, underhanded, handed. Meaning: adj. 1. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands 2. unjustly domineering.
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1. The protestors accused the police of using heavy-handed tactics.
2. Don't be too heavy-handed with the salt.
3. Irving's new novel contains too much heavy-handed symbolism.
4. His heavy-handed tactics usually had their desired effect in reducing men to quivering wrecks.
5. An incident with a couple of heavy-handed cops touched it off, and the riot was on.
6. The humour was heavy-handed and, in response to Simon Franks' nervous laugh, Blanche smiled politely.sentencedict.com
7. Penn has been criticized for his heavy-handed style of management.
8. If a president makes heavy-handed use of the authority, Congress will find a way to take it back.
9. It is no surprise that an incident involving heavy-handed policing created the spark to start a new incident.
10. The measure passed easily, but heavy-handed government interference in the voting brought the result into question.
11. However, Kurtz is not heavy-handed, laying out the pros and cons of talk culled from years of exhaustive reporting.
12. In particular, there have been several complaints of heavy-handed policing of demonstrations, of which three examples may be given here.
13. The somewhat heavy-handed symbolism of the watch not withstanding, the work is a fine contemplation on death.
14. Because the committee chairmen chafed at his heavy-handed tactics in the last Congress.
15. Newman's pained performance is a slightly heavy-handed but compelling version of the Marlon method.
16. But it is firmly against heavy-handed regulation, such as a sharp increase in mandatory fuel efficiency for cars.
17. In fact she tends to be a little heavy-handed when she wears make-up.
18. You can'tbe heavy-handed. You have to make people aware that you understand their concerns.
19. It all depends on how heavy-handed you are with the paprika.
20. A heavy-handed approach from the police could undo that good impression.
21. When you find yourself getting heavy-handed with the saltshaker, simply drop a few apple (or potato) wedges in your pot.
22. They made 11 arrests for drug possession, in an operation which the travellers described as heavy-handed and unreasonable.
23. Their initial response to the growth of crime, which stemmed from rising unemployment and inequality, was heavy-handed and militaristic.
24. One might have thought that this was the sort of heavy-handed executive action which the Constitutional Court was in business to curb.
25. The H-23 had had direct mechanical linkages to control the rotor system and required heavy-handed operation.
26. Garvey says his machine tends to be a little more heavy-handed with the Hail Marys than your average priest.
27. The demonstration had been dealt with in a violent and heavy-handed way.
28. Zhou's remarks indicated the central bank is trying to shun heavy-handed credit controls and could lean more on conventional policy tools, such as interest rates and currency, analysts say.
29. Massachusetts Institute of Technology doctoral physicist Charles Zhang, 33, for example, is trying to steer Beijing away from the heavy-handed state planning used by South Korea and Japan.
30. Past IMF efforts in other regions, including Latin America and Asia, were often seen as heavy-handed and tone-deaf to the privations forced on ordinary citizens.
More similar words: with a heavy heart, heavy, heavy duty, heavyweight, heavy traffic, heavy industry, underhanded, handed, bare-handed, red-handed, openhanded, high-handed, open-handed, right-handed, move heaven and earth, high-handedness, by hand, on every hand, heave, heaven, heavens, heavily, heaving, heave-ho, heavier, upheaval, heavenly, heaviest, heaviness, on the average.