ham-handed

See also: hamhanded

English

Adjective

ham-handed (comparative more ham-handed, superlative most ham-handed)

1. Clumsy, heavy, or inept; not delicate, light or gentle.

   Synonyms: ham-fisted, heavy-handed

   Some of the dishes arrived damaged after their ham-handed moving efforts.

   • 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.

Related terms

• ham-handedly
• ham-handedness

 

Translations

Clumsy, heavy, or inept

• Bulgarian: тромав (bg) (tromav), несръчен (bg) (nesrǎčen)

See also

• fat-fingered

 

Anagrams

• Haddenham