bungling vs heavy-handed

bungling

adj
  • Incompetent or inept. 

noun
  • An act of incompetence or ineptitude. 

heavy-handed

adj
  • Lacking subtlety or nuance. 

  • Do not be too heavy-handed with the salt. 

  • Overbearing, coercive; unnecessarily forceful; harsh, oppressive. 

  • Clumsy, awkward. 

  • Excessive, overdone. 

How often have the words bungling and heavy-handed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )