Usually means: Excessive force or overly assertive.
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  1. heavy-handedness: Merriam-Webster
  2. heavy-handedness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heavy-handedness, heavy-handedness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. heavy-handedness: Wordnik
  5. heavy-handedness: Wiktionary
  6. heavy-handedness: Dictionary.com
  7. heavy-handedness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heavy-handedness)

▸ noun:  The property or state of being heavy-handed.

Similar:
iron-handedness, strong-handedness, high-handedness, heaviness, heftiness, stronghandedness, light-handedness, gravity, dirty-handedness, weightiness, more...

Opposite:
gentleness, subtlety, finesse, tactfulness

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Similar:
iron-handedness, strong-handedness, high-handedness, heaviness, heftiness, stronghandedness, light-handedness, gravity, dirty-handedness, weightiness, more...

Opposite:
gentleness, subtlety, finesse, tactfulness



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