Synonyms for heavy-handed
heavy-hand·ed

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1. bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handedadjective

   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:
   left-handed, levorotary, incompetent, bumbling, levorotatory, butterfingered, morganatic, handless, roughshod, fumbling, clumsy, ham-handed, ham-fisted, bungling

   Antonyms:
   submissive, adroit

2. heavy-handed, roughshodadjective

   unjustly domineering

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

   Synonyms:
   left-handed, savage, bumbling, butterfingered, handless, barbarous, fell, roughshod, cruel, vicious, ham-handed, ham-fisted, bungling, brutal

   Antonyms:
   adroit, submissive

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1. List of paraphrases for "heavy-handed":

   clumsy, cumbersome, unwieldy, oppressive

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1. Mishi Choudhary:

   A heavy-handed government that wishes to use technology to surveil its own citizens or control the narrative by curtailing their free speech and expression is not interested in using technology for the good but merely to control, in such scenarios comparisons with the Chinese authoritarian internet are natural.

2. Yanzhong Huang:

   Ultimately the local government officials have no choice but to do this heavy-handed approach in order to get things done in these circumstances.

3. Tom Moore:

   I hope she's not very heavy handed with the sword, by then I might be rather a poor old weak soul.

4. Victoria Petrock:

   If they don't, they risk more heavy-handed regulation at some point, so they would rather be part of the solution than part of the problem.

5. Lee Kuan Yew:

   It used to be a top-down government, often quite heavy-handed, it's no longer that way ... Strong leadership is listening, engaging, moving with people.