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. Sylvia Chang:

   The law makes me dislike China even more, they had promised 50 years unchanged for Hong Kong but they are getting all the more heavy-handed... I am worried Hong Kong today could be Taiwan tomorrow.

2. Margo Feinberg:

   What we see is a very heavy-handed, anti-union campaign that's affected all levels of workers' everyday lives.

3. 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.

4. Hillary Clinton:

   I think it was one of the major contributors to the outcome, propaganda works. Advertising works. It’s a form of propaganda. So the Russians may have started out a little heavy-handed and clumsy about it, but they were clearly getting guided as to where to target a lot of their fraudulent claims and phony news.

5. Jonathan Fahey:

   It's kind of interesting how he's trying to walk this back now because he's running for election, trying to center himself to the middle, he was associated with groups, liked tweets and other stuff to show that he wanted ICE abolished and it's really just anti-ICE. He and others have been on this crusade to just take down ICE, demonize ICE agents in every single respect by calling them racists, delegitimizing what they're doing, and treating them like they're doing something heavy-handed, unlawful, when they're simply just doing their job, trying to keep our communities safe and our country safe. … It really is disgraceful.