Textual thesaurus for "heavy-handed"

(adj) left-handed, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered

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

(adj) roughshod

unjustly domineering

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