heavy-handed



heavy-handed

 
1. if you try to control someone or something in a heavy-handed way, you use more force than is necessary or suitable His heavy-handed style of management is extremely unpopular.
2. if an attempt to tell or teach someone something is heavy-handed, it is too obvious The theme of drug abuse is treated in a way that is convincing without being heavy-handed.

heavy-handed

mod. tactless; forceful; unfair. Paul is a little heavy-handed at times, but mostly he’s reasonable.

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Yumiyoo-meeJapanese
Saiful-Arabic
Ratna-Indian, Hindi, Telugu, Nepali, Indonesian
Marikomah-ṙee-koJapanese
Dawud-Arabic
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