heavy-handed vs ungenteel

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. 

ungenteel

adj
  • Not genteel; coarse and ill-mannered. 

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