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{
"ref": "2020 April 22, “Network News: BTP chief pays tribute to rail staff and BTP officers”, in Rail, page 10",
"text": "Crowther also distanced the BTP from the heavy-handed approach to the lockdown that other police forces have been accused in the national media of taking.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Overbearing, coercive; unnecessarily forceful; harsh, oppressive."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"Overbearing",
"overbearing"
],
[
"coercive",
"coercive"
],
[
"forceful",
"forceful"
],
[
"harsh",
"harsh"
],
[
"oppressive",
"oppressive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(derogatory) Overbearing, coercive; unnecessarily forceful; harsh, oppressive."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "clumsy",
"word": "awkward"
},
{
"sense": "clumsy",
"word": "cack-handed"
},
{
"sense": "clumsy",
"word": "clumsy"
},
{
"sense": "clumsy",
"word": "ham-handed"
},
{
"sense": "clumsy",
"word": "ham-fisted"
},
{
"sense": "clumsy",
"word": "maladroit"
},
{
"tags": [
"excessive"
],
"word": "excessive"
},
{
"tags": [
"excessive"
],
"word": "OTT"
},
{
"tags": [
"excessive"
],
"word": "over the top"
},
{
"sense": "lacking nuance",
"word": "ham-handed"
},
{
"sense": "lacking nuance",
"word": "unsubtle"
},
{
"sense": "lacking nuance",
"word": "on the nose"
},
{
"sense": "overbearing",
"word": "bossy"
},
{
"sense": "unnecessarily forceful; expressing a higher degree of forcefulness:",
"word": "brutal"
},
{
"word": "cruel"
},
{
"word": "draconian"
},
{
"word": "hardhanded"
},
{
"word": "harsh"
},
{
"word": "overstrict"
},
{
"word": "rough"
},
{
"word": "strict"
},
{
"word": "heavyhanded"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nesrǎčen",
"sense": "clumsy, awkward",
"word": "несръчен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nepohvaten",
"sense": "clumsy, awkward",
"word": "непохватен"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "clumsy, awkward",
"word": "kovakourainen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "clumsy, awkward",
"word": "kömpelö"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "clumsy, awkward",
"word": "unbeholfen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "clumsy, awkward",
"word": "linkisch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "clumsy, awkward",
"word": "ungeschickt"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "clumsy, awkward",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ohne Feingefühl"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "clumsy, awkward",
"word": "schwerfällig"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prekaljavašt",
"sense": "excessive, overdone",
"word": "прекаляващ"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "excessive, overdone",
"word": "te scheutig"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "excessive, overdone",
"word": "ylenpalttinen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "excessive, overdone",
"word": "excessif"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "excessive, overdone",
"word": "excesivo"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "excessive, overdone",
"tags": [
"euphemistic"
],
"word": "großzügig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "excessive, overdone",
"word": "übertrieben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "excessive, overdone",
"word": "tollpatschig"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "excessive, overdone",
"word": "excesivo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lacking subtlety or nuance",
"word": "karkea"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking subtlety or nuance",
"word": "plump"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking subtlety or nuance",
"word": "grob gestrickt"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking subtlety or nuance",
"word": "ungehobelt"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking subtlety or nuance",
"word": "ungeschliffen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking subtlety or nuance",
"word": "hölzern"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "overbearing; pushy and coercive",
"word": "kovaotteinen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "overbearing; pushy and coercive",
"word": "penetrant"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "overbearing; pushy and coercive",
"word": "poltrig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "overbearing; pushy and coercive",
"word": "polterig"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "drastičen",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "драстичен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "žestok",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "жесток"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "hardhandig"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "kovaotteinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "kovakourainen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "unbarmherzig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "drakonisch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "drastisch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "rigoros"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "radikal"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "durchgreifend"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "einschneidend"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "draconiano"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "extreme, unnecessarily forceful",
"word": "drástico"
}
],
"word": "heavy-handed"
}
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