hardhanded

adjective2

1. •
   Working-class; having hands hardened from labor.

   • To deliver out of that Egyptian bondage to Wretchedness, and Ignorance, and Sin, the hardhanded millions, of whom this hardhanded, earnest witness, and writer, is here representative. — 1864
2. •
   Forceful, excessive, draconian, or abusive.

   • Martin Van Buren—plain, republican, hardhanded-democratic-locofoco Martin Van Buren—has [the East Room] now garnished with gold framed mirrors 'as big as a barn door,' — 2008