heavy-handed

heavy-handed /'hevi'hændid/
  • tính từ
    • vụng về, không khéo tay
    • (nghĩa bóng) độc đoán, áp chế, áp bức

Xem thêm: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, left-handed, roughshod



heavy-handed

Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • 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; bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, left-handed
  • unjustly domineering; roughshod

    incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies

    a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless left-handed roughshod