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Definition of heavy-handed in English: heavy-handedadjectiveˌhɛvɪˈhandɪdˈˌhɛvi ˈˌhændəd 1Clumsy, insensitive, or overly forceful. Example sentencesExamples - Three years of protests is a long time in a city where the police have developed a reputation for using heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators.
- The protesters also want an end to the heavy-handed police tactics that led to the killing of the four demonstrators last week.
- But Ms Smith, who got caught up in the brawl, said she would be complaining to the police about their heavy-handed approach.
- Surely the police response was a bit heavy-handed - what order were they disrupting anyhow?
- Outraged republicans accused the police of heavy-handed tactics.
- The heavy-handed tactics resulted in sporadic clashes between protesters and police and numerous arrests.
- But protesters claimed they had not come to fight and many accused the police of heavy-handed tactics and attacking them for no reason.
- In Portugal handcuffed and hung over hooligans whinge about heavy-handed police tactics and plead their innocence.
- This was particularly the case in Brixton where the riots are thought to have been sparked off by a certain degree of insensitive and heavy-handed policing.
- Pub landlord Paul Morris criticised police for being heavy-handed and has disputed that any drugs were found.
- It's a good thing the scene was deleted, as it's heavy-handed and the dialogue is awkward.
- Around fifteen people were arrested after heavy-handed tactics were employed by police.
- My apologies to the author for what may well be rather heavy-handed paraphrasing of his often quite poetic prose.
- It is narrative driven, without being heavy-handed or overly literal.
- The riots were seen specifically as anti-police demonstrations provoked by heavy-handed police harassment.
- Police used heavy-handed tactics to disperse the protesters.
- They warned, however, that a heavy-handed police response could trigger mass protests.
- Some say the police did it to gain sympathy for the coming heavy-handed police tactics at the summit.
- Too often they came across as gimmicks, awkward and heavy-handed.
- Killing the arsonist was both heavy-handed and bound to attract further police attention.
Synonyms clumsy, awkward, maladroit, unhandy, inept, unskilful, inexpert, graceless, ungraceful informal ham-handed, ham-fisted, cack-handed British informal all thumbs, all fingers and thumbs insensitive, oppressive, overbearing, high-handed, harsh, hard, stern, severe, tyrannical, despotic, autocratic, ruthless, merciless tactless, undiplomatic, thoughtless, inconsiderate, inept - 1.1 Using too much of something.
beware of being heavy-handed with the flour Example sentencesExamples - This intrusion shows how heavy-handed the movie's efforts to be relevant and political are.
Derivatives adverbˌhɛvɪˈhandɪdli Overall, Lantos comes out heavy-handedly against the idea of publicly held companies being expected to be ethically altruistic. Example sentencesExamples - It's one thing to heavy-handedly engineer a pesticide into every cell of a crop; it's quite another to manage the ecological interrelationships of the farm so that the offending insect is controlled by the natural balances.
- The gap between the corrupt ruling class and the poor is wide and deep and he captures the unrest both too heavy-handedly and incredibly subtly.
- It is 1980s country house hotel cooking: complicated, rich, protein-intensive, heavy-handedly peppered with foods that shriek out Scottishness.
- The basic plot points were delivered heavy-handedly at the beginning, but many things were not explained clearly after that, so I spent much of the first half of the film trying to figure out who people were.
- A group of four friends are debating - somewhat heavy-handedly - whether the nature of life is essentially tragic or comic.
- Some moderators look at themselves as lords of mini-fiefdoms, abusing the power that moderation gives them and heavy-handedly ordering people around, or else warning participants not to do anything to anger them.
- The brothers wanted to explore the theme of transition, but the angel motif is used so literally and heavy-handedly that the film threatens to sink under the weight of its own feathers.
- He expresses a few phrases of Oriental philosophy, but not as heavy-handedly as he did in the movies of the 1930s and 1940s.
- Sometimes this is dealt with rather heavy-handedly.
- A truly intrusive and irritating score, which heavy-handedly underlines every ‘poignant’ moment, only reinforces this condescending tendency.
- I really think it's just an extension of that adolescent need to define one's individuality as heavy-handedly as possible, but specifically in the area of intelligence.
- The works, intentionally filled with corrections, are heavy-handedly drawn and messily painted with the naivety of a beginning art student.
- As an added inducement, it was heavy-handedly hinted that co-operation by Bucharest would assist Romania's ambition to join the European Union.
- The film is cheerfully anachronistic - sometimes too heavy-handedly so.
- It has however indicated that it would not act heavy-handedly on 1 October and impose sanctions immediately against US exports to the EU, but first try to seek an amicable agreement for compensation.
noun If a controversial EU directive becomes law next week, such heavy-handedness will become the norm across Europe whenever copyright owners claim to be the victims of ‘piracy’. Example sentencesExamples - Critics have been quick to accuse the monolith of Soviet-style heavy-handedness for this particular innovation, but given that the only real inconvenience this poses is making it harder to pirate the stuff, we can't really complain.
- In talking with him before coming on the air, as to what made him switch parties in 1994, and he was saying it was the heavy-handedness of the administration at the time, that of course being President Clinton.
- With such heavy-handedness behind the camera, I'm not sure how talented actors could emerge with any autonomy or achieve any genuine soul-bearing.
- These tactics not only failed to engage the guerrillas, who easily evaded the large jungle sweeps, but their heavy-handedness alienated the local population.
- It made me reflect on the pronouncements of those engaged in the recent civil disobedience in Edinburgh about ‘fascist states’ and police heavy-handedness.
- I feel it was much lighter on the heavy-handedness and sensationalism that characterizes much of his other work, and thank God for that.
- The first reaction was to applaud the rioting children and to complain of police heavy-handedness.
- The heavy-handedness of local officials has been partly to blame for increases in rural instability that in recent years have seen pitched battles between police and farmers.
- He said: ‘It's the heavy-handedness of the police, they are making a bad situation worse.’
- This heavy-handedness - ‘We're going to tell you what's good for you’ - just turned around and destroyed people's business.
- The government is acting in line with its age-old propensity for heavy-handedness.
- Still, they avoid heavy-handedness and are mostly quite charming.
- Their grievances were oppressive and unfair taxation, heavy-handedness of the authorities, and lack of political representation.
- Those present at protests on both the Friday and Saturday claim that police heavy-handedness in Toronto was taken to a whole new level.
- They manage this despite some serious heavy-handedness in the script.
- Their on-screen graphics take far too much of the screen too - another manifestation of their bullish ignorant heavy-handedness.
- Additionally, Greek attempts at restoration during the twentieth century have been equally criticised for their insensitivity and heavy-handedness.
- This, however, did nothing to change the perception of heavy-handedness.
- Meanwhile, here in London, events passed off peacefully amidst accusations of police heavy-handedness.
Rhymes backhanded, candid, candied, high-handed, offhanded, red-handed, short-handed, unbranded, underhanded Definition of heavy-handed in US English: heavy-handedadjectiveˈˌhevē ˈˌhandədˈˌhɛvi ˈˌhændəd 1Clumsy or insensitive. this heavy-handed prose is merely tiresome Example sentencesExamples - It's a good thing the scene was deleted, as it's heavy-handed and the dialogue is awkward.
- Police used heavy-handed tactics to disperse the protesters.
- Some say the police did it to gain sympathy for the coming heavy-handed police tactics at the summit.
- But Ms Smith, who got caught up in the brawl, said she would be complaining to the police about their heavy-handed approach.
- Three years of protests is a long time in a city where the police have developed a reputation for using heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators.
- In Portugal handcuffed and hung over hooligans whinge about heavy-handed police tactics and plead their innocence.
- The riots were seen specifically as anti-police demonstrations provoked by heavy-handed police harassment.
- Too often they came across as gimmicks, awkward and heavy-handed.
- Outraged republicans accused the police of heavy-handed tactics.
- The heavy-handed tactics resulted in sporadic clashes between protesters and police and numerous arrests.
- It is narrative driven, without being heavy-handed or overly literal.
- The protesters also want an end to the heavy-handed police tactics that led to the killing of the four demonstrators last week.
- This was particularly the case in Brixton where the riots are thought to have been sparked off by a certain degree of insensitive and heavy-handed policing.
- Killing the arsonist was both heavy-handed and bound to attract further police attention.
- Pub landlord Paul Morris criticised police for being heavy-handed and has disputed that any drugs were found.
- But protesters claimed they had not come to fight and many accused the police of heavy-handed tactics and attacking them for no reason.
- Around fifteen people were arrested after heavy-handed tactics were employed by police.
- Surely the police response was a bit heavy-handed - what order were they disrupting anyhow?
- My apologies to the author for what may well be rather heavy-handed paraphrasing of his often quite poetic prose.
- They warned, however, that a heavy-handed police response could trigger mass protests.
Synonyms clumsy, awkward, maladroit, unhandy, inept, unskilful, inexpert, graceless, ungraceful insensitive, oppressive, overbearing, high-handed, harsh, hard, stern, severe, tyrannical, despotic, autocratic, ruthless, merciless - 1.1 Overly forceful or oppressive.
the government's most heavy-handed efforts to muzzle social protest Example sentencesExamples - This intrusion shows how heavy-handed the movie's efforts to be relevant and political are.
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