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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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

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

    clumsy, cumbersome, unwieldy, oppressive

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How to use heavy-handed in a sentence?

  1. Mishi Choudhary:

    A heavy-handed government that wishes to use technology to surveil its own citizens or control the narrative by curtailing their free speech and expression is not interested in using technology for the good but merely to control, in such scenarios comparisons with the Chinese authoritarian internet are natural.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Elijah Cummings:

    There was no need for the Select Committee to send two U.S. Marshals to the home of Sidney Blumenthal to serve his wife with a subpoena, especially since the Committee never bothered to contact him first to ask him whether he would voluntarily come in. These heavy-handed, aggressive, and unnecessary tactics waste the time of the U.S. Marshal service.

  5. 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.


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  • übertriebend, extrem, streng, unbarmherzig, durchgreifend, umständlich, drückend, drastisch, ohne Feingefühl, ungeschickt, plump, unbeholfen, schwerfälligGerman
  • drástico, draconianoSpanish

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