Heavy-handed

Definitions: Heavy-handed

Heavy-handed

Adjective

1. 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.

2. Unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "heavy-handed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1877. (references)

Synonyms: Heavy-handed

Unskillfulness

Adjective: unskillful; inexpert; bungling;Verb: awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit; left-handed, heavy-handed; slovenly, slatternly; gawky.

Crosswords: Heavy-handed

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

Reports of intimidation, heavy-handed surveillance, and legal action to quiet the unduly curious or nondeferential reporter were common in the past, but these reports have declined significantly since the coup. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

In early 2001, significant protests were staged by ethnic minority members in Gia La and Dak Lak provinces in the Central Highlands, prompting a heavy-handed reaction by the Vietnamese government and security forces. (references)

Human Rights

Morocco

Most Moroccans see this case as a patent, heavy-handed attempt by the Government to prevent Boukhari from talking about the Ben Barka disappearance. (references)

Political Economy

Burma

It now exercises oppressive, heavy-handed domination over the political, economic and social life of Burma. (references)

India

These problems are acute in Jammu and Kashmir, where judicial tolerance of the Government's heavy-handed counterinsurgency tactics, the refusal of security forces to obey court orders, and terrorist threats have disrupted the judicial system. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly), i pashpirt (callous, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, heartless, insensate, soulless), i ngathët (angular, atonic, awkward, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, hulking, inept, laggard, languid, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, maladroit, oafish, pedestrian, poky, quick, shiftless, slack, torpid, ungainly, unhandy, unmoved, unready, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Bulgarian 

несръчен (all thumbs, awkward, blundering, bungling, butterfingered, clumsy, inept, left handed, maladroit, two-fisted, unapt, unskilful, untoward), деспотичен (bossy, despotic, domineering, masterful, peremptory, tyrannical). (various references)

Czech

tyranský (bullying, despotic, oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous), tìžkopádný (clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, dull, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy, heavy going, inarticulate, lumpish, unwieldy), nemotorný (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, elephantine, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, oafish, ungainly, unskillful), autoritáršký. (various references)

Finnish

kovakourainen (rough). (various references)

Greek 

αδέξιοσ (awkward, clownish, clumsy, dabbler, gauche, inapt, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, skilless, slouch, squirt, unapt, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful). (various references)

Hungarian

esetlen (awkward, bearish, clumsy, cubbish, fumbling, gauche, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, hulking, inelegant, lubberly, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Italian

severo (austere, hard, harsh, martinet, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, tight), maldestro (all thumbs, awkward, clumsy, gauche, ham-fisted, ill at ease, inexperienced, inexpert, maladroit, unhandy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

醇化 (elimination of non-essential elements, persuading by heavy-handed methods). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

じゅ�"か (acclimate, acclimation, elimination of non-essential elements, persuading by heavy-handed methods, purification). (various references)

Manx

smaghtoil (disciplinary, repressive), kuittagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

eavy-handedhay

Portuguese

grosseiro (a.b.c., abc, awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earwax, gross, gruff, harsh, hogmanay, home-made, ill mannered, ill-conceived, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unmannerly, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), desastrado (awkward, bumbling, butterfinger, disastrous, fumbling, left handed, maladroit), caminhão pesado. (various references)

Romanian

tiranic (cruel, despotic, despotically, domineering, oppressive, severe, tyrannical, tyrannous), cu mânã grea, cu mânã de fier. (various references)

Russian 

неловкий (awkward, blundering, cack-handed, clumsy, gauche, gawky, maladroit, self conscious, self-conscious, uneasy, ungainly, ungraceful), жестокий (atrocious, barbarous, bitter, bloody minded, bloody-minded, brutal, brutish, butcherly, cruel, cutthroat, despiteful, doggish, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grim, hard bitten, heathenish, inhuman, inhumane, iron-handed, keen, mortal, satrapic, uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trapav (clumsy, hulking), teške ruke. (various references)

Spanish

con mano fuerte. (various references)

Swedish

tafatt (awkward, clumsy, flatfooted, gauche, gawky, inept, left handed, maladroit, tag), klumpig (awkward, awkwardly shaped, awkward-to-handle, cloddish, Cloggy, clownish, clumsy, cumbersome, doughy, elephantine, flatfooted, gauche, hulking, inelegant, inept, left handed, lumpish, pasty, uncouth, ungainly, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Turkish

zalim (arbitrary, atrocious, bloody minded, brutal, cruel, cutthroat, daemon, demon, draconian, draconic, fell, felon, fiendish, flinty, grim, heavy, ill natured, inhuman, miscreant, ogre, oppressive, oppressor, outrageous, persecutor, sanguinary, savage, stony, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical), sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), sakar (awkward, butterfingered, clumsy, gawky, left handed, maladroit, oaf, sacchar-, ungainly, unhandy), eli ağır (ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-fisted, slow), beceriksiz (awkward, bungler, bungling, clumsy, Duff, duffer, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, lubber, maladroit, manque, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oaf, oafish, resourceless, rude, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilful, untalented). (various references)

Ukranian 

сонний (morphemic, poppied, sleepy, slumbery, somniferous, somnolent, soporific, yawny), тупоголовий (brutish, fatheaded, nowt, numskull, thick-headed), в'ялий (drowsy, flabby, flaccid, listless, oscitant, phlegmatic, quaggy, sapless, sleepy, stagnant). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vụng về (butter-fingered, clumpish, clumsily, clumsy, gauche, loutish, maladroit, rough-hewn, stern foremost), áp chế (domineering, repressive), áp bức. (various references)

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