ADJECTIVE
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lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
ham-handed governmental interference
could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature
a bumbling mechanic
a bungling performance
How To Use ham-fisted In A Sentence
- I was sitting in Panera Bread last night, fumbling around with proxies in an attempt to get around their ham-fisted network filtering.
- There's something endearingly gauche and ham-fisted about the way in which this tune almost succeeds as a Stock Aitken Waterman soundalike, but ultimately just falls short.
- The Slovakians' ability to pass the ball around a pitch that was hardly conducive to an expansive approach embarrassed the ham-fisted attempts of Eriksson's men to mimic their hosts' fluency and rhythm.
- There are other indications that the plot - which has been widely portrayed as a ham-fisted attempt by a band of mercenaries to seize power in an oil-rich state - had wider backing.
- This is what separates the professional from us ham-fisted beer guzzling amateurs.
- I think cap-and-trade would be a ham-fisted, unhelpful, damaging thing to the economy. ... Tim Pawlenty: Cap-And-Trade Support Was 'A Mistake' (AUDIO)
- I have stood on the shed and waved my arms about the place making ham-fisted attempts at semaphore.
- At first we didn't have a lot in common: he's a middle aged east African Asian with a knowing smile, while I'm a tubby ham-fisted writer without much sense of the world.
- Serco continued its slump following the outsourcing group's ham-fisted attempt to demand cash rebates from its suppliers to make up for the squeeze on its margins, a move it later retracted. Tullow Oil leads the way as FTSE moves higher ahead of Federal Reserve's QE decision
- I admit that my blanket statements about conspiracy theorists was a complete ham-fisted overgeneralization. Is Swine Flu source leaked military weapon?
