Dead-handed

No, it was stupid, dead-handed higher authority that made the army dead: absolutely fool-dead.

In contrast, Washington was like a cold bath on a January morning; we were quickly made aware of the dead-handed grasp of the bureaucracy, the unwillingness of all but a few top leaders to consider old problems in fresh terms

There's a wash of noise I am somehow part of, dead-handed. The first song is pretty much over before I even realize we're playing.

Then simply hit a dead-handed chip, with the hands, wrists and arms all swinging together as if in a solid block.

My mother laughs from her grave, such are my sewing skills, but among these dead-handed men my wielding of a needle is nothing short of a miracle.

Charlie blushed as if he had been caught in the act of dead-handed idiocy.

Your man is caught dead-handed. He has the gun in his hand, or the marijuana in the car, or the narcotics in his suitcase...