Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking dexterity or skill; clumsy.
- adj. Lacking social grace or tact.
- adj. Having unusually large hands.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
Examples
“Our ham-handed approach to other countries is pretty scary. thetruth”
“Just when you thought BP couldn’t top former CEO Tony Hayward’s ham-handed statements last summer, it appears the giant oil conglomerate still has the mojo to make Gulf residents’ blood boil.”
The Huffington Post: Rocky Kistner: BP to Feinberg: Stop Paying People So Much
“You can guess what happens next, but it doesn't matter, for Kanin runs the changes on his familiar theme so adroitly that you won't even mind the ham-handed civics lesson tucked into the last five minutes of the play.”
“Quant analysts might unearth some false notes, but compared with usually ham-handed corporate thrillers, this is as welcome as "Margin Call" or a new Joseph Finder novel.”
“Then our ham-handed land of the giants reality takes over and the little magic letter is prepared for real-world mailing.”
“Politico approached him 10 days before the story was published and asked for a response and there was nothing until the ham-handed iterations of the narrative that unfolded over the course of one news cycle.”
“And of course, all this is complicated by ham-handed attempts to reach out to female gamers, to hold on to the valuable 19-35 male demographic, not to mention poor understanding of what accessibility means and why you really shouldn't be throwing a 16 button controller at people ... but a lot of it really does come down to: games are expensive to make because of the art.”
“But I simply didn't buy the ham-handed way he descended into Taxi Driver territory, no matter how inexorably brutal his world may be.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: DVDs: The King And Still Champ: "Citizen Kane"
“First, he made a ham-handed attempt to change the definition to an "aspirational goal of a time horizon," whatever that meant.”
The Huffington Post: Chris Weigant: Republicans Disrespect Iraqi Democracy
“But his decision to go now, and there, seems either ham-handed or vaguely defiant.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ham-handed’.
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Handy Words
List of words and phrases referring to the hand, hands, fist, or derivatives of the Latin manus, beginning with left-handed.
left-handed, double-fisted, fisticuffs, handy, right-handed, two-handed, manual, manumission, manuscript, manually, manustupration, manudiction and 164 more...
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the catch-all
inveigle, frontier, invective, quizzical, merit, proficiency, eleemosynary, ham-handed, circumspect, epergne, cobble, industriousness and 201 more...
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Hyphenated Actual Words
These kind of stun me whenever I see them. Language is just so cool.
chuck-will's-widow, will-o-the-wisp, saw-whet, topsy-turvy, linsey-woolsey, ne'er-do-well, gung-ho, so-so, cul-de-sac, fleur-de-lys, service-berry, major-domo and 33 more...
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monkey's Words
callow, feckless, puissant, erstwhile, imbroglio, mawkish, lugubrious, cogent, impugn, sweetpea, perfidy, specious and 43 more...
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waffling's Words
palimpsest, elephantine, quandary, crapulous, ham-handed, impetuous, alluvial, perverse, epistle, epithet, maleficent, tintinnabulation and 21 more...
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