4 example sentences using heavy-handed.
Heavy-handed used in a sentence
Heavy-handed in a sentence as an adjective
I don't think it's as heavy-handed as you suggest.
Maybe the Apple security guy will get dressed-down by his superiors for being so heavy-handed and causing bad press.
Seems like they have a fairly obvious purpose: discourage Sony from being heavy-handed against hobbyist hackers.
All the mechanisms for preventing abuse could have been done in a much more heavy-handed way, such as by being tied to a central email account that you use to authenticate to dozens of critical services you depend on in your life, that can be yanked and shut down at any time, with a very tenuous appeal process.
Heavy-handed definitions
lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
See also: bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless left-handed
unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
See also: roughshod