heavy-handed vs maladroit

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. 

maladroit

adj
  • Not adroit; awkward, clumsy, inept. 

noun
  • Somebody who is inept, or lacking in skill, or talent. 

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