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Ham-handed

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Adjective

1. bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed

lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

Example Sentences:
'a bumbling mechanic'
'a bungling performance'
'ham-handed governmental interference'
'could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Ham-handed

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adjective
clumsy, graceless, or tactless; inept
: also Chiefly British ˈham-ˌfisted

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Ham-handed

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adj.
1. Lacking dexterity or skill; clumsy.
2. Lacking social grace or tact.
3. Having unusually large hands.

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