heavy-handed vs salted

heavy-handed

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

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

  • Clumsy, awkward. 

  • Excessive, overdone. 

  • Lacking subtlety or nuance. 

salted

adj
  • To which salt has been added. 

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