cack-handed

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"cack-handed" or "ham-handed" or anything handed -- they are following a conscious, deliberate policy which consists not only of making the harsh and planned announcement, but then feigning a modification of it and feigning even that they "screwed up".

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  • 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
  • "The answer is they were smothered by Johnson's cack-handed alterations." —  GeoffShackelford.com
  • The answer is they were smothered by Johnson's cack-handed alterations. —  GeoffShackelford.com
  • In the end, CCA's handling of Tennessee's prisons turned out to be so cack-handed that the state had to take back all but one of them. —  CounterPunch
  • Yet every bail-out, every nationalisation, every stimulus package - every cack-handed measure taken since the crisis began, in fact - has been decreed without reference to MPs. —  Telegraph Blogs
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  1. Perhaps from Old Norse keikr, bent backwards; akin to Danish keite, left-handed.
 

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