heavy-handed vs materialist

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. 

materialist

adj
  • Having features typical of philosophical materialism. 

noun
  • Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions. 

  • A follower or proponent of philosophical materialism. 

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