ADJECTIVE
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lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
ham-handed governmental interference
could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature
a bumbling mechanic
a bungling performance
How To Use ham-handed In A Sentence
- The danger, of course, is that we alienate the very populations whose cooperation we need through ham-handed prosecutions that leave them afraid to talk to the government at all.
- Costner's worst trait as a director, besides his ham-handed use of symbolism like precious china or fluffy white puppies, is a disregard for subtlety.
- Then would follow the ham-handed jocularities of the extrovert-in-residence - there was always one. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
- But the point can be made so frequently and unsubtly - and even ham-handedly - by the convention organisers that it frequently assumes something of the character of self-caricature.
- Aside from the stylish Huma Abedin, there's definitely something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign -- sometimes to her detriment, as with the recent ham-handed playing of the clichéd gender card. "Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
- The LifeBook's keyboard is about 10 % smaller than a full-size keyboard, a serious drawback for the ham-handed.
- It is true that the ham-handed attempts by the Health Ministry to regulate this sector have now reached stifling bureaucratic proportions.
- ham-handed governmental interference
- Freed of external political pressures, they are far more likely to produce sensible social outcomes than any ham-handed state mandate on affirmative action.
- I haven't seen such raw arrogance, such disdain for democratic principle, such ham-handed use of power, since J.R. and Dallas bit the dust.
