hamfistedness

Clangers are his house speciality, the mystery only how someone of his staggering incompetence has managed to be selected for more Test matches than Donald Bradman and, as Ian Chappell has succinctly put it, even The Don's batting wouldn't compensate for such hamfistedness.

New Zealand's boundary bounty should not be demeaned by cries of 'fix' 2011

Yesterday, though, as his hamfistedness let England off the hook to reach a position from which already they should go on to win the first Test, it was apparent that indeed it is possible.

Eoin Morgan makes careless Pakistan pay as England take control 2010

For all the hamfistedness sometimes evinced in the original series and to a greater extent in those later reboots, the show had one redeeming quality that has been named again and again by commentators and critics over the years: a certain sense of optimism.

Star Trek 2009

For all the hamfistedness sometimes evinced in the original series and to a greater extent in those later reboots, the show had one redeeming quality that has been named again and again by commentators and critics over the years: a certain sense of optimism.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

But the other thing on this economic issue, I think that the hamfistedness we have seen in Washington over the last couple of days, partly through the auto hearings, I mean, what you showed on television last night were those jets coming in and that PR disaster they had.

CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2008 2008

Once again, the DI shows a surprising amount of hamfistedness and cluelessness while trying to be funny.

The Panda's Thumb: December 2005 Archives 2005

Once again, the DI shows a surprising amount of hamfistedness and cluelessness while trying to be funny.

Monty Python it is not - The Panda's Thumb 2005

For all its hamfistedness, it captures something about the tyranny of the ballet world and, by extension, the neurotic imprisonment of female body image.

chron.com Chronicle 2010

The controversial decision to allow a third runway at Heathrow was presented, with similar hamfistedness, as a green measure.

Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2009

I think what I was trying to say makes sense despite my hamfistedness.

Whiskey Fire 2009