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heavy-handed
Synonyms and Antonyms of heavy-handed
1
given to exacting standards of discipline and self-restraint
adamant, adamantine, callous, hardened, hard-hearted, hard-line, immovable, implacable, inflexible, merciless, ossified, pitiless, relentless, rock-ribbed, stiff, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding
ascetic (also ascetical), monastic, monkish
determined, firm, resolved, single-minded, steadfast, unflinching
2
lacking or showing a lack of nimbleness in using one's hands
awkward, butterfingered, cack-handed [British], clumsy, graceless, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, left-handed, maladroit, unhandy
all thumbs
deft, dexterous (also dextrous), handy, sure-handed
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