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Adjective: heavy-handed  'he-vee'han-did
  1. Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
    "a heavy-handed mechanic";
    - bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, left-handed
     
  2. Unjustly domineering
    "incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies";
    - roughshod

See also: domineering, maladroit

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