Usually means: Excessively forceful or overbearing approach.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word heavy-handed:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. heavy-handed: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. heavy-handed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heavy-handed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heavy-handed, heavy-handed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heavy-handed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heavy-Handed, Heavy-handed, heavy-handed: Wordnik
  7. heavy-handed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heavy-handed: Wiktionary
  9. heavy-handed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heavy-handed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heavy-handed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heavy-handed: Dictionary.com
  13. heavy-handed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. heavy-handed: Rhymezone
  15. heavy-handed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. heavy-handed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. heavy-handed: Free Dictionary
  18. heavy-handed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. heavy-handed: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heavy-handed: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heavy-handed: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heavy-handed: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heavy-handed: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See heavy-handedly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (derogatory) Clumsy; awkward.
adjective:  Excessive; overdone.
adjective:  (derogatory) Lacking subtlety or nuance.
adjective:  (derogatory) Overbearing, coercive; unnecessarily forceful; harsh, oppressive.

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