heavy-handed

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

So was the importance of protest itself, which he vowed to protect from the heavy-handed policies employed by his predecessors.

Some were funny, while some were more heavy handed slams of ISIS simply framed in comedic terms.

Heavy-handed police work like that carried out by Burge and, apparently, Evans, gets results.

She said Mars Hill “engages in heavy-handed discipline through a hierarchical structure.”

Here John was in charge of the blacks and under his heavy-handed rule the cases were rapidly stowed away.

It is the same fierce, hard-living, heavy-handed, very cunning service out of which the Navy as we know it to-day was born.

He asked, after a moment, "Don't you think that would be rather a heavy-handed way of dealing with the matter?"

Those heavy-handed mechanics in the district motor pool, for example.

"If Happy's ghost don't git to playin' music too much," he added with his heavy-handed wit.