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ham-handed

ham-handed adjective: clumsy, heavy, or inept; not delicate, light or gentle.

Adjective

ham-handed (comparative more ham-handed, superlative most ham-handed)

  1. Clumsy, heavy, or inept; not delicate, light or gentle.
    • 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.2013 September 10, Michiko Kakutani, “A Calamity Tailor-Made for Internet Conspiracy Theories”, in New York Times

ham-handed meaning in Tamil

ham-handed in Tamil

செப்பமற்ற

Synonyms of ham-handed

Forms of ham-handed

comparativemore ham-handed
superlativemost ham-handed

Words formed from ham-handed

Questions about ham-handed

What does ham-handed mean?
Ham-handed means clumsy, heavy, or inept; not delicate, light or gentle.
What is ham-handed in Tamil?
Ham-handed in Tamil is செப்பமற்ற. See Ham-handed meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ham-handed?
Ham-handed is an adjective.

Words near ham-handed in the dictionary

  1. ham-and-egger
  2. ham-and-eggers
  3. ham-and-eggs daisy
  4. ham-fisted
  5. ham-fistedly
  6. ham-handed
  7. ham-handedly
  8. ham-handedness
  9. ham-hocks
  10. ham-sandwich
  11. ham-sandwiches

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