heavy-handed vs wry

heavy-handed

adj
  • Clumsy, awkward. 

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

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

  • Excessive, overdone. 

  • Lacking subtlety or nuance. 

wry

adj
  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place. 

  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). 

  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

verb
  • To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.). 

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