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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hev-ee-han-did |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛv iˈhæn dɪd |
Definition of heavy-handed
Origin :- also heavyhanded, 1630s, originally "weary" or "clumsy;" from heavy (adj.) + handed. Sense of "overbearing" is first recorded 1883.
- adj strict
- adj awkward
- A rough-featured, heavy-handed peasant's son was this Peter.
- Extract from : « God Wills It! » by William Stearns Davis
- John, being the heavy-faced and heavy-handed man, shut the door.
- Extract from : « Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days » by Arnold Bennett
- What had he in common with his own father—hard-working, heavy-handed Amos Burr?
- Extract from : « The Voice of the People » by Ellen Glasgow
- Argyll's heavy-handed management of that election is the subject of Defoe's Atalantis Major.
- Extract from : « Atalantis Major » by Daniel Defoe
- That particular sort of heavy-handed jest was specially dear to Bronckhorst.
- Extract from : « The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition » by Rudyard Kipling
- The boy could direct a gang of heavy-handed laborers nearly as well as he could.
- Extract from : « In the Days of the Guild » by Louise Lamprey
- Some men are born with the requisite sensitiveness of touch, others will be clumsy and heavy-handed to the end of their days.
- Extract from : « Chats on Angling » by H. V. Hart-Davis
- And doubtless it was the cardinal's heavy-handed dealing with Fra Tomasso that had provoked this particular sermon.
- Extract from : « The Saracen: Land of the Infidel » by Robert Shea
- And yet, compared with the methods of the heavy-handed realist of later times such unscrupulousness had a merit of its own.
- Extract from : « Garden-Craft Old and New » by John D. Sedding
- It is the same fierce, hard-living, heavy-handed, very cunning service out of which the Navy as we know it to-day was born.
- Extract from : « Sea Warfare » by Rudyard Kipling
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