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. Jesse Hunt:

   Wisconsin Democrats took a pretty heavy-handed approach( to Covid-19), everyone knew who their governor was and many of them have not been satisfied with how their states have recovered post-pandemic.

2. 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.

3. Peter Goldring:

   It's heavy-handed, i think it's clumsy diplomacy.

4. Aaron Hutman:

   The banks have to hear something along the lines of 'If you act in good faith, you can expect that we are not going to engage in any heavy-handed enforcement,' that's not the message you get. The message you get is, 'We plan to vigorously enforce our Iran-related laws.'.

5. Sylvia Chang:

   The law makes me dislike China even more, they had promised 50 years unchanged for Hong Kong but they are getting all the more heavy-handed... I am worried Hong Kong today could be Taiwan tomorrow.