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heavy-handed

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heavy-handed
1. if you try to control someone or something in a heavy-handed way, you use more force than is necessary or suitable. His heavy-handed style of management is extremely unpopular.
2. if an attempt to tell or teach someone something is heavy-handed, it is too obvious. The theme of drug abuse is treated in a way that is convincing without being heavy-handed.

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