All heavy-handed synonyms
heav·y-hand·ed
H h adj heavy-handed
- coercive — Coercive measures are intended to force people to do something that they do not want to do.
- cruel — Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
- harsh — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
- oppressive — burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- clumsy — A clumsy person moves or handles things in a careless, awkward way, often so that things are knocked over or broken.
- inept — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
- severe — harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws.
- graceless — without any sense of right or propriety.
- unskillful — not skillful; clumsy or bungling.
- bumbling — If you describe a person or their behaviour as bumbling, you mean that they behave in a confused, disorganized way, making mistakes and usually not achieving anything.