heavy-handedness
Example Sentences
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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
Officers were also heavily criticised for alleged heavy-handedness over other arrests linked to the coronation.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2023
French police regularly clear makeshift migrant camps on France’s northern coastdrawing complaints of heavy-handedness from migrants and human rights groups.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2021
None of this is lost on the creators, who find themselves wrestling with what it means to make subtle art in a world whose natural disasters increasingly have the heavy-handedness of agitprop.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 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 Mackail, J. W. (John William)
