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ham-handed

[ ham-han-did ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

clumsy, inept, or heavy-handed:
a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings.

First recorded in 1915–20

It was a new voice, and in contrast to the ham-handed posturing of “Officer Hernandez,” the threat was direct and more aggressive.

It was ham-handed and poorly done, and it all could have been averted.

The only fortunate thing for the White House is that the Republicans are often even more ham-handed than he.

But they are chortling about how ham-handed Burson's PR guys were.

Rather, they expressed surprise at how ham-handed Burson has been.

I was getting ham-handed and mutton-fisted, flapping the old things every day; felt I wanted to stunt about a bit.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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