ham-fistedness

ham-fist·ed (h

adj.

Ham-handed.

ham-fisted, ham-handed

adj

Informal lacking dexterity or elegance; clumsy

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Adj.

ham-fisted - lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse

bumbling, butterfingered, ham-handed, heavy-handed, handless, bungling, left-handed

maladroit - not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda"

ham-fisted

adjective clumsy (Informal) awkward, bungling, inept, cack-handed (informal), maladroit, ham-handed (informal), all fingers and thumbs (informal), butterfingered (informal), unhandy They can be made by even the most ham-fisted of cooks.

Translations

ham-fisted [ˌhæmˈfɪstɪd] ham-handed [ˌhæmˈhændɪd] ADJ → torpe, desmañado

ham-fisted, ham-handed

adj → ungeschickt; efforts, person also → tollpatschig (inf)

ham-fisted [ˌhæmˈfɪstɪd] ham-handed (Am) [ˌhæmˈhændɪd] adj → maldestro/a

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Brian Viner, The Independent's TV critic, said of the show: "for all its occasional ham-fistedness, and some confusion over its identity as it lurched between comment and comedy, The Complainers might just be worth following.

Why one city 'hoodie' was given a dressing down by TV star Dom by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)

Ah, but there was a point to all this: The network actually played off Caruso's ham-fistedness, featuring fresh clips of the actor introducing each night of the new schedule with a hackneyed Caruso-ism retooled to describe the new lineup: (paraphrasing) "Cordon off CBS' Friday night, because -- (campy pause as he dons his sunglasses) it's a killer.

THE MAYOR OF TELEVISION SHATNER UNAVAILABLE? DAVID CARUSO WILL DO by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Where there had been ham-fistedness, there was finally some guile and intelligence.

Football: Defensive steel proves just the job for Liverpool; Reds' ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

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