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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 heavy-hand·ed /-ˈhændɪd/
 (a.)笨手笨腳的,嚴厲的

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 heavy-handed
      adj 1: not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands;
             "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance";
             "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could
             scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the
             poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse [syn: bumbling, bungling,
              butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless,
              left-handed]
      2: unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's
         heavy-handed economic economic policies"; "a manager who
         rode roughshod over all opposition" [syn: roughshod]