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heavy-handedness
noun as in clumsiness
Strong matches
Example Sentences
District Judge David O. Carter, a no less colorful figure than Yagman, has built a reputation for judicial unorothodoxy bordering on heavy-handedness.
The R rating awarded to “Self Reliance” for its language only proves the heavy-handedness of our rating system, as you’ll strain to hear anything in this genially bonkers comedy that couldn’t have been written by an 11-year-old.
Hamrouni acknowledges her own heavy-handedness in rearing her daughters, her sometimes violent eruptions of temper and her intense anxiety about her girls’ blossoming sexuality.
Officers were also heavily criticised for alleged heavy-handedness over other arrests linked to the coronation.
Excising the heavy-handedness of previous versions of “Days of Wine and Roses,” and softening the details of Joe’s degradation, they go deeper into the heart-rending familial fallout of addiction.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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