Adjective
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unjustly domineering
"incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies"
"a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition"
- heavy handed -
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
"a barbarous crime"
"brutal beatings"
"cruel tortures"
"Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"
"a savage slap"
"vicious kicks"
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(of a horse) having horseshoes with projecting nails to prevent slipping