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Ham-handed   /hæm-hˈændəd/   Listen
Ham-handed

adjective
1.
Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.  Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed.  "A bungling performance" , "Ham-handed governmental interference" , "Could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"






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"Ham-handed" Quotes from Famous Books



... was getting ham-handed and mutton-fisted, flapping the old things every day; felt I wanted to stunt ...
— Mr. Punch's History of the Great War • Punch



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