Dictionary

ham-handed en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Clumsy, heavy, or inept; not delicate, light or gentle.
   • 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. 2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in New York Times:
   • Some of the dishes arrived damaged after their ham-handed moving efforts.

Forms

Deriveds

ham-handedness

Relateds

ham-handedly · fat-fingered · ham-handedness

Synonyms

heavy-handed · ham-fisted

Translations (2)

bg несръчен (Clumsy, heavy, or inept) · bg тромав (Clumsy, heavy, or inept)