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(adj) heavy-handed
unjustly domineering
incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies; a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition
(adj) brutal, barbarous, cruel, vicious, savage, fell
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
a barbarous crime; brutal beatings; cruel tortures; Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks; a savage slap; vicious kicks