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heavy-handed

/hev-ee-han-did/US // ˈhɛv iˈhæn dɪd //

笨重的,沉重的,粗暴的,笨重

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : oppressive; harsh: a heavy-handed master.
    • : clumsy; graceless: a heavy-handed treatment of the theme.

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Examples

  • The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.

  • “There is a heavy security presence but nothing has changed,” agrees Father Javier.

  • The running machines are a gloomy chorus of heavy-footed stomping.

  • “JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.

  • Some “hanging judges” have handed down hundreds of death sentences at a time.

  • The policemen looked dull and heavy, as if never again would any one be criminal, and as if they had come to know it.

  • Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.

  • "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

  • Hunter-Weston despite his heavy losses will be advancing to-morrow which should divert pressure from you.

  • Again the young fellow repeats his fatal "Banco," as he stakes a fresh pile of notes handed to him by the obsequious Jew.