Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.
1It's ham-handed, and often sarcastic, and unlikely to have the intended effect.
2How did the Bishop of Chester respond to Mr. Pepys's rather ham-handed revelations?
3I am offended you should think I would be so ham-handed with it.
4It was a ham-handed way to enter the SA dissertation.
5It was the opening he'd been hoping for, though the segue was admittedly ham-handed.
6The farrier was ham-handed with the hoof-pick, the doctor saw, working around the tender frog.
7Preshea considered joining them, but that would appear ham-handed.
8But some efforts he resisted as too ham-handed.
9As a result, "we were caught out in attempted coups, ham-handed operations of all kinds."
10I played wrong notes, my tempo went, my phrasing was amateur and ham-handed-I was just a mess.
11And it's kind of a ham-handed effort if it's someone who's trying to help the president, he said.
12Ki poured it all out to him, about Iya and Brother and his own ham-handed failures at comfort.
13The door gets stuck, because a ham-handed amateur installed it, and it makes a racket when it's finally forced open.
14Certainly, the sensation of Gates's featherlight touch on her neck was nothing like the ham-handed grabbiness of the Italian guy.
15In that sense, ham-handed governmental intrusions like the Communications Decency Act and the Office of the Independent Counsel are a gift.
16Despite its initially ham-handed response to the fans, Warner has done a remarkable job of shepherding the Potter saga over the years.