heavy-handed meaning and definition

HEAVY-HANDED adjective

Definition of heavy-handed (adjective)

1. 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
   • synonyms: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, left-handed
2. unjustly domineering
   • "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
   • synonyms: roughshod