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Adjective heavy-handed has 2 senses
- bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed - 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
Antonym: adroit (indirect, via maladroit)
- heavy-handed, roughshod - unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
Antonym: submissive (indirect, via domineering)
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