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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: heavy-handed (0.01784 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to heavy-handed.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: heavy-handed
heavy-handed
adj 1: not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands;
“a bumbling mechanic”;
“a bungling performance”;
“ham-handed governmental interference”;
“could
scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the
poor creature”- Mary H. Vorse [syn:
bumbling,
bungling,
butterfingered,
ham-fisted,
ham-handed,
handless,
left-handed]
2: unjustly domineering;
“incensed at the government's
heavy-handed economic economic policies”;
“a manager who
rode roughshod over all opposition” [syn:
roughshod]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: heavy-handed
heavy-handed
\heavy-handed\ adj.
1. same as
ham-fisted.
Syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted,
ham-handed, handless, left-handed.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. unjustly harsh or domineering; as, incensed at the
government's heavy-handed economic policies.
Syn: harsh, roughshod.
[WordNet 1.5]
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