heavy-handed

  • (s) 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
    bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, bungling, handless, left-handed,
  • (s) unjustly domineering
    • incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies
    • a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
    roughshod,

Synonyms

bumbling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed bungling handless left-handed roughshod

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