heavy-handed Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. adjective satellite lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
   butterfingered; bumbling; handless; ham-handed; bungling; left-handed; ham-fisted.
   
   • 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
2. adjective satellite unjustly domineering
   roughshod.
   
   • incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies
   • a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition

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