heavy-handedness
Example Sentences
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Xi appears to understand the lesson from the 1960s, when Soviet heavy-handedness toward China as the “younger brother” helped fracture that earlier alliance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
District Judge David O. Carter, a no less colorful figure than Yagman, has built a reputation for judicial unorothodoxy bordering on heavy-handedness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
Still, that heavy-handedness had a crucial side effect: The governor was fatally isolated at his time of political need.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2021
It says there were "multiple failings" in how both events were handled, despite an official report clearing the Met of heavy-handedness.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2021
He appealed strongly to all that was worst in Roman taste—its heavy-handedness, its admiration of verbal cleverness, its tendency towards brutality.
From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail
