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HEAVY-HANDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
Example:
could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature
Synonyms:
bumbling; bungling; butterfingered; ham-fisted; ham-handed; handless; heavy-handed; left-handed
Classified under:
Similar:
maladroit (not adroit)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unjustly domineering
Example:
a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
Synonyms:
heavy-handed; roughshod
Classified under:
Similar:
domineering (tending to domineer)
