cack

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What was more damaging: the leaflets the "McLibel Two" handed out to a few thousand mostly disinterested people in Britain, or the cack-handed "bringing of the McLibel suit" by the local McDonald's legal guy?

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  • Several of the words used in Earl Sterndale are found in other dialects of the British Isles, such as cack-handed 'clumsy', chuntering 'mumbling disagreeably', and nous, 'common sense'.Dialects always overlap in this way.
  • Like most dealers, I can only say cack-tooze, rhyme with hack-booze I thought cacktoozes were Scotch, Lovejoy.' —  dummy 3
  • If they buy a painting they'll cack-handedly try to add to it. —  process 10
  • Trouble is that it was such a low dose and so cack-handedly presented that most of the public didn't recognise it as a stimulus at all. —  Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk
  • And here's another conundrum: why have British politicians, especially Brown and Blair, deceived the public into signing away national control over critical aspects of life and commerce to the most unresponsive and cack-handed organization ever conceived in the world's long history? —  SYNTAGMA
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  1. Also cacky, cackie; from Middle English cakken = Dutch kakken = Low German kacken = German kacken = Danish kakke; prob., like Italian cacare = Spanish cagar = Bohemian kakati = Polish kakac, from Latin cacare = Greek κακκᾶν, of same sense.
  2. Also cacky, cackie; from cack, v. Cf. Old French caca, excrement.
  3. Origin obscure.
 

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