ham-fisted
Adjective: - Clumsy or awkward, especially with the hands: Describes a person who lacks manual dexterity or skill, often resulting in awkward or poorly executed physical actions. - Inept or bungling: Can extend to describe general incompetence or a lack of finesse in handling situations, tasks, or objects.
The word "ham-fisted" is used to criticize a person's physical clumsiness or general lack of skill. It is informal and often carries a mildly humorous or critical tone. It typically describes a person's actions or the nature of those actions.
- "Ham-fisted attempt/effort": A clumsy or inept try at doing something.
- The company's ham-fisted attempt to launch the product alienated its core customers.
- "Ham-fisted handling": Incompetent or tactless management of a situation.
- The crisis was exacerbated by the government's ham-fisted handling of the information.
- Ham-handed (adj): A direct synonym with identical meaning and usage.
- He was too ham-handed to thread the needle.
- Heavy-handed (adj): While similar, this more often implies a lack of subtlety, delicacy, or fairness in non-physical actions (e.g., authority, punishment, management).
- The teacher's heavy-handed discipline created resentment.
- Bumbling (adj): Clumsy or incompetent, often in a foolish way.
- Maladroit (adj): (More formal) Inefficient or unskillful; awkward.
- Clumsy
- Inept
- Awkward
- Bungling
- Unhandy
- Graceless
- Dexterous
- Adroit
- Skillful
- Handy
- Nimble-fingered
- Graceful
While "ham-fisted" itself is an adjective often used in set phrases (see Advanced Usage), it is related to the idiom: - "All thumbs": Very clumsy with one's hands. - When it comes to crafts, I'm all thumbs. (This is a more common idiomatic expression for physical clumsiness.)
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lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
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a bumbling mechanic
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a bungling performance
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ham-handed governmental interference
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could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature- Mary H. Vorse
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