Definitions for heavy-handed

heavy-handed heav·y-hand·ed

Spelling: [hev-ee-han-did]
IPA: /ˈhɛv iˈhæn dɪd/

Heavy-Handed is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 224 anagrams from letters in heavy-handed (-aaddeehhnvy).

Definitions for heavy-handed

adjective

  1. oppressive; harsh:
  2. clumsy; graceless:

Origin of heavy-handed

First recorded in 1625-35

Examples for heavy-handed

So was the importance of protest itself, which he vowed to protect from the heavy-handed policies employed by his predecessors.

John, being the heavy-faced and heavy-handed man, shut the door.

She said Mars Hill “engages in heavy-handed discipline through a hierarchical structure.”

heavy-handed police work like that carried out by Burge and, apparently, Evans, gets results.

The shooting of Michael Brown and the heavy-handed response by the police that followed has struck a nerve among Muslims.

A rough-featured, heavy-handed peasant's son was this Peter.

The whole scene is so awash with heavy-handed religious imagery you can probably just skip church on Sunday.

That particular sort of heavy-handed jest was specially dear to Bronckhorst.

Argyll's heavy-handed management of that election is the subject of Defoe's Atalantis Major.

What had he in common with his own father—hard-working, heavy-handed Amos Burr?

Word Value for heavy-handed
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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