heavy-handed
Adjective
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Adjective
heavy-handed
- Clumsy, awkward.
- Excessive, overdone.
- Do not be too heavy-handed with the salt.
- Simplistic, lacking subtlety or nuance.
- Overbearing; pushy and coercive.
- Extreme; unnecessarily forceful; harsh, oppressive, and cruel.
- (clumsy) awkward, cack-handed, clumsy, ham-handed, ham-fisted, maladroit
- (excessive) excessive, OTT, over the top
- (simplistic) blunt, crude, oversimplistic, simplistic, unsubtle
- (overbearing) bossy, coercive, dictatorial, forceful, overbearing
- (unnecessarily forceful) brutal, cruel, draconian, hardhanded, harsh, overstrict, rough, sadistic, strict
- German: unbeholfen, ungeschickt, ohne Feingefühl, schwerfällig, plump, umständlich, unbarmherzig
- German: extrem, drastisch, durchgreifend, streng, übertriebend, drückend
- Spanish: draconiano, drástico
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