heavy-handedness
Example Sentences
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District Judge David O. Carter, a no less colorful figure than Yagman, has built a reputation for judicial unorothodoxy bordering on heavy-handedness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2024
Officers were also heavily criticised for alleged heavy-handedness over other arrests linked to the coronation.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2023
Kim Ji-myung, who founded the Korean Interpretation Institute, accuses China of heavy-handedness.
From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2023
No one should have been surprised by Qatar’s heavy-handedness.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022
He appealed strongly to all that was worst in Roman taste—its heavy-handedness, its admiration of verbal cleverness, its tendency towards brutality.
From Latin Literature by Mackail, J. W. (John William)
