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Strict or exacting in standards

Domineering or overbearing in one's treatment of others

Clumsy, inept, or overly forceful in execution

Crude in manner, lacking subtlety, nuance or refinement

Not able to be suffered, difficult or impossible to endure

Lacking in imagination or originality

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Adjective

Strict or exacting in standards

anti-democratic

tough nut to crack

desensitised^UK

desensitized^US

take-no-prisoners

dyed-in-the-wool

incontrovertible

rigidly enforced

strictly controlled

closely controlled

bred-in-the-bone

telling it like it is

solid as a rock

as it really happened

fixed as the laws of the Medes and the Persians

lacking compassion

with a heart of stone

not giving an inch

having a killer instinct

not subject to change

in black and white

well-established

on a tight rein

fixed as the laws of the Medes and Persians

well-proportioned

full of determination

one-dimensional

rooted to the spot

at a standstill

not moving a muscle

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“But, in no time at all, the rank and file quickly took a fierce disliking to Musham's heavy-handed rules and regulations.”

Adjective

Domineering or overbearing in one's treatment of others

high and mighty

high-and-mighty

anti-democratic

throwing one's weight around

throwing one's weight about

in driver's seat

on your high horse

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“The heavy-handed boss may motivate his team to get the job done today, but he will also motivate them to start looking for a new employer.”

Adjective

Clumsy, inept, or overly forceful in execution

all fingers and thumbs

like a bull in a china shop

unsophisticated

with two left feet

having two left feet

having two left hands

out of your depth

nonprofessional

rough-and-tumble

not up to scratch

not good enough

not cut out for

not up to snuff

lacking ability

leaving much to be desired

without finesse

lacking finesse

couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery

not equipped to

not professional

unequal to the task

not know one's arse from one's elbow

lacking experience

unqualified for

unable to do something

out of one's element

can't make the grade

no great shakes

dissatisfactory

unable to do something for toffee

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“The whole exercise smacks of a heavy-handed attempt at censorship.”

Adjective

Crude in manner, lacking subtlety, nuance or refinement

unsophisticated

straightforward

like a bull in a china shop

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“Though the transition from sated decadence to virtuous barbarism is blunt and heavy-handed, the echo of the beginning of the poem is more carefully managed.”

Adjective

Not able to be suffered, difficult or impossible to endure

not to be borne

too much to bear

beyond endurance

enough to try the patience of a saint

enough to try the patience of Job

beyond the pale

enough to tax the patience of a saint

enough to test the patience of a saint

more than flesh and blood can stand

more than one can stand

more than one can bear

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Adjective

Lacking in imagination or originality

undistinguished

run of the mill

run-of-the-mill

middle-of-the-road

no great shakes

nothing to write home about

common or garden

run-of-the-mine

dull as dishwater

fair-to-middling

nothing special

nothing to get excited about

fair to middling

non-stimulating

inconsequential

lacking vitality

lacking interest

lacking excitement

middle of the road

of no consequence

past their sell-by date

unobjectionable

lacking in vitality

soul-destroying

par for the course

blending into the background

run-of-the mill

not amounting to much

dull as ditchwater

of little consequence

of little importance

not worth mentioning

of no importance

of no great concern

lacking variety

two-dimensional

straightforward

lacking originality

unsophisticated

unprepossessing

unexceptionable

honest-to-goodness

nothing out of the ordinary

sufficiently good

lacking variation

moderately good

unextraordinary

cheap and commonplace

standardized^US

standardised^UK

conventionalized

neither one thing nor the other

nothing to shout about

barely adequate

pure and simple

better than nothing

rough and ready

not worth speaking of

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