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heavy-handedness

noun as in clumsiness

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It was associated with government heavy-handedness and viewed with disdain.

Annoyingly, Dating Naked tiptoes into heavy-handedness as a few of its subjects start telling sob stories.

They do not welcome the Muslim Brothers' authoritarianism, oppression and heavy handedness, and they will not put up with it.

In contrast to the seriousness and heavy-handedness of late-era Idol, X Factor feels positively effervescent.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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