Source : WordNet®
heavy-handed
adj 1: not skillful in physical movement 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 [syn: {bumbling}, {bungling},
{butterfingered}, {ham-fisted}, {ham-handed}, {handless},
{left-handed}]
2: unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's
heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who
rode roughshod over all opposition" [syn: {roughshod}]