Synonyms for heavy-handed
heavy-hand·ed

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1. bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handedadjective

   lacking physical movement skills, 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

   Synonyms:
   left-handed, levorotary, incompetent, bumbling, levorotatory, butterfingered, morganatic, handless, roughshod, fumbling, clumsy, ham-handed, ham-fisted, bungling

   Antonyms:
   submissive, adroit

2. heavy-handed, roughshodadjective

   unjustly domineering

   "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"

   Synonyms:
   left-handed, savage, bumbling, butterfingered, handless, barbarous, fell, roughshod, cruel, vicious, ham-handed, ham-fisted, bungling, brutal

   Antonyms:
   adroit, submissive

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1. List of paraphrases for "heavy-handed":

   clumsy, cumbersome, unwieldy, oppressive

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1. Ron DeSantis:

   Nobody should lose their job due to heavy-handed COVID mandates, and we had a responsibility to protect the livelihoods of the people of Florida.

2. David Snyder:

   To threaten discipline up to and included firing seems at the very least heavy-handed; it's not like the Social Security or bank account numbers were released.

3. John Thune:

   It sounds like it's a very, very heavy-handed government intervention in the marketplace and essentially kind of killing the free market for drugs.

4. Ken Jones:

   We don't want to come off heavy-handed, yet, i don't think anyone is going to cause a riot.

5. Yanzhong Huang:

   Ultimately the local government officials have no choice but to do this heavy-handed approach in order to get things done in these circumstances.