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Noun: heavy-handedness
  1. The property of being clumsy and awkward, and thus excessive.
    "What seemed sharp and pointed onstage comes across pedantically in the film, which treats its subject with a clumsy heavy-handedness.";
    - ham-fistedness, ham-handedness

Type of: awkwardness, cack-handedness [Brit, informal], clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness

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