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ham-handed
adjective as in clumsy
Weak matches
- all thumbs
- blundering
- blunderous
- bumbling
- bungling
- butterfingered
- clownish
- crude
- elephantine
- gauche
- gawkish
- gawky
- graceless
- heavy
- helpless
- hulking
- ill-shaped
- incompetent
- inelegant
- inexperienced
- inexpert
- lubberly
- lumbering
- lumpish
- maladroit
- oafish
- splay
- stumbling
- unable
- unadept
- uncoordinated
- uncouth
- undexterous
- uneasy
- unhandy
- unskillful
- untactful
- untalented
- untoward
- weedy
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Example Sentences
It was a new voice, and in contrast to the ham-handed posturing of “Officer Hernandez,” the threat was direct and more aggressive.
It was ham-handed and poorly done, and it all could have been averted.
The only fortunate thing for the White House is that the Republicans are often even more ham-handed than he.
But they are chortling about how ham-handed Burson's PR guys were.
Rather, they expressed surprise at how ham-handed Burson has been.
I was getting ham-handed and mutton-fisted, flapping the old things every day; felt I wanted to stunt about a bit.
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On this page you'll find 87 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ham-handed, such as: bulky, heavy-handed, inept, ponderous, ungainly, and unwieldy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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