Ham-handed

Synonyms for "ham-handed" (42 found)

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Closest matches (9)

all thumbs awkward blunderheaded boorish careless

Adjective(1 words)

Adjective(3 words)

bumbling bungling butterfingered

Strong matches (12)

clumsy cumbersome fumbling gauche gawky graceless heavy handed

Adjective(2 words)

ham-fisted heavy-handed

Adjective(3 words)

ham-fisted handless heavy-handed

Related words (21)

hulking inelegant inept left handed loutish lumbering lumpish maladroit oafish ponderous sloppy stiff uncouth ungainly ungraceful unhandy unwieldy wooden

Adjective(1 words)

Adjective(2 words)

miserable unskilled

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Related terms

3 entries

fat-fingered ham-handedly ham-handedness

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Translations

2 translations across 1 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries

несръчен adj (Clumsy, heavy, or inept)
тромав adj (Clumsy, heavy, or inept)

Sample sentences

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The apology was rather ham-handed.

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

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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