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heavy-handed
adjective as in strict
Strongest matches
Weak match
adjective as in awkward
Weak matches
Example Sentences
You don’t need to be heavy-handed, but 15 well-seasoned ingredients will sing together more beautifully than one giant pot that only gets salted at the end.
But it has faced a backlash from US tech giants, with Musk saying last month that its real purpose was "suppression of the people" and that Ofcom had taken a "heavy-handed approach" to enforcement.
As if to prove it, she recently made her film debut in Ish – the story of two best friends whose friendship is tested by an ugly and heavy-handed police stop and search.
While our 1st Amendment tradition has mostly protected satire over the years, it hasn’t prevented heavy-handed politicians from occasionally trying to silence their comedic critics.
Instead of quashing the probe, his heavy-handed tactics had only fueled it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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