heavy-handed

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Similar to:
maladroit
2. unjustly domineering
- incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies
- a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
• Syn:
roughshod
• Similar to:
domineering

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  roughshod, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, left-handed