ham-handed

Speech parts

1. ham-handed - Adjective

2. ham-handed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

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Synonyms

left-handed handless bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ungainly wooden stiff uncomfortable awkward inexperienced uneasy cumbersome incompetent

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Antonyms

great comely distinguished beautiful accomplished attractive

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Examples

a bumbling mechanic Source: Internet

a bungling performance Source: Internet

ham-handed governmental interference Source: Internet

could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature Source: Internet

But if in the beginning the president had studied the Asian model instead of charting his own ham-handed course, where might we be now? Source: Internet

Eaton thinks he still owns half of his polling company, but is soon informed by the new owner, a wheedling and ham-handed former office manager named Megassum, that he’d actually sold his interest to Baker before leaving for the war. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ham-fisted ham-fistedly ham-fistedness ham-handedly ham-handedly said ham-handedness