heavy-handed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.31 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Some people say, 'I can't make pastry, I'm too heavy-handed.'"
- "Do not be too heavy-handed with the salt."
- "However, recently I got a little heavy-handed with the red pepper flakes."
- "...punk “music has been, and still is, one of the most heavy-handed genres of music there is. Unfortunately the topics of such heavy-handed songs are almost always seeped in left wing propaganda, bumper sticker rallying calls and oversimplifications of otherwise complex topics.""
- "“Heavy-handed, huh? Is that by any chance your way of telling me that I'm a bad communicator?" "No, it's my way of telling you that you obviously haven't shaken the take-charge attitude.""
- "I cite how ineffective heavy-handed training methods are due to the physiological state of high arousal and avoidance behaviors they cause in dogs."
Etymology
From heavy + hand + -ed, literally “having a heavy hand”. Compare Middle English hevitime, heviteme (“burdensome, grievous, grave”), from Old English hefiġtīme, hefiġtȳme (“grievous, wearisome, tedious, troublesome”).