dead-handed

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

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

Dead Elvis – Crappy renditions of Beethoven songs from beyond the grave, while continuing his covert work as an anti-drug crusading CIA agent trying to blacklist the Beatles, who are also dead mostly, in a dead-handed cash grab and fame flaming, when he can’t use either 103/10

Johnny Borrell & Hermione Granger A Couple? YEEURCH! 2008