ham-handed

How To Use ham-handed In A Sentence

• Politics is wily, skilled and intelligent, not clumsy and ham-handed.
• Owing in large part to the Administration's ham-handed advance work, the strident conservative anger that erupted this summer over health-care reform has shifted from town halls to school halls.
• The ham-handed director was Susanna White, who intercuts compulsively, whether or not anything is happening. 'Last Dancer': Ultimately on Point
• Today, after three years of government efforts, however ham-handed, to strengthen aviation security, some very expensive coverage is starting to be available.
• Nor did her husband's ham-handed collaboration, in the crass style of a dad dancing at the school disco, do anything to retrieve the dignity of the situation.
• It is clear there are people whose jobs are threatened by this ham-handed completely cynical exercise.
• In years past, Beijing repeatedly drove islanders into the independence camp with its fiery rhetoric and ham-handed military threats.
• It's more like a clearing house for news links that are headlined with a ham-handed bias.
• Sometimes, he is shown on television mustering up a public scolding of a ham-handed government agency, as if he were trying out a few tough - guy mannerisms picked up from his mentor, Mr. Putin.
• Colleagues were increasingly worried about his judgment and hold on reality, with his ham-handed attempts to dictate to politicians and his acquisitions for acquisition's sake.