HEAVY-HANDED

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : bumbling , bungling , butterfingered , ham-fisted , ham-handed , handless , left-handed

• (adj.) unjustly domineering

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

  synonyms : roughshod

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