Ham-handed
"Ham-handed" in a Sentence (3 examples)
The apology was rather ham-handed.
Some of the dishes arrived damaged after their ham-handed moving efforts.
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.
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