heavy-handed

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

heavy-handed
    adj 1: lacking physical movement skills, 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},
           {heavy-handed}, {left-handed}]
    2: unjustly domineering; "incensed at the government's heavy-
       handed economic policies"; "a manager who rode roughshod over
       all opposition" [syn: {heavy-handed}, {roughshod}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

heavy-handed \heavy-handed\ adj.
   1. same as {ham-fisted}.

   Syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted,
        ham-handed, handless, left-handed.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. unjustly harsh or domineering; as, incensed at the
      government's heavy-handed economic policies.

   Syn: harsh, roughshod.
        [WordNet 1.5]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "heavy-handed":
      autocratic, awkward, bungling, clumsy, despotic, dictatorial,
      domineering, graceless, harsh, imperious, inept, magisterial,
      maladroit, oppressive, overbearing, severe, tyrannical,
      ungraceful