heavy-handedly
- a word derived from heavy-handed.
Example Sentences
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He was not referring, he insisted, to the “sin” of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but to pride for “intervening explicitly and heavy-handedly in the course of human history.”
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025
In the past, these storylines would have undoubtedly influenced national conversations but for me, it felt like the issues were dealt with heavy-handedly and often felt shoehorned into plotlines.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2025
In those California sunset-of-Aquarius days of 1975, many reviewers similarly dismissed Joni Mitchell’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns as heavy-handedly conceptual and musically indistinct.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2021
Memory looms heavily and sometimes heavy-handedly over “All Day and a Night,” which drifts backward and forward in time as it pieces together moments from Jahkor’s life.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2020
He described Pallastown rather heavy-handedly, and bought some microfilm postcards to go along with his missive, as soon as he went out to mail it.
From The Planet Strappers by Gallun, Raymond Z.
