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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use heavy-handed in a sentence
The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSDrone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSHunter-Weston despite his heavy losses will be advancing to-morrow which should divert pressure from you.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONAgain the young fellow repeats his fatal "Banco," as he stakes a fresh pile of notes handed to him by the obsequious Jew.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSHeavy firing continued all that afternoon, inflicting great loss on the rebels, whilst the Spaniards lost one soldier.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANThe keen resentment had faded from his face, but an immense reproach was there—a heavy, helpless, appealing reproach.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESRye is now being harvested, and is quite heavy: in fact, all the crops promise abundant harvests.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYLawrence handed the General the mysterious message and Schofield read it with a darkened brow.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNStill, if such an envelope should be handed him, he would breathe easier until it was opened.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXWORDS RELATED TO HEAVY-HANDED
- all thumbs
- blundering
- blunderous
- bulky
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingered
- clownish
- crude
- elephantine
- gauche
- gawkish
- gawky
- graceless
- ham-handed
- heavy
- heavy-handed
- helpless
- hulking
- ill-shaped
- incompetent
- inelegant
- inept
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- lubberly
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- ponderous
- splay
- stumbling
- unable
- unadept
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- undexterous
- uneasy
- ungainly
- unhandy
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- unwieldy
- weedy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.