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Definition of ham-fisted in English: ham-fistedadjective informal Clumsy; bungling. 〈非正式〉笨拙的，粗手粗脚的；拙劣的 一次笨拙的尝试。 Example sentencesExamples - Manufacturers, pubs and bars are eager to head off what one industry insider said could become ‘some ham-fisted attempt to clamp down’.
- Anyone familiar with my previous ham-fisted attempts to establish myself as a domestic goddess will find this new urge more laughable than laudable.
- Its ham-fisted attempts to modernise the service plunged the post office network into crisis.
- It was a ham-fisted attempt which was doomed to failure.
- There are other indications that the plot - which has been widely portrayed as a ham-fisted attempt by a band of mercenaries to seize power in an oil-rich state - had wider backing.
- For the pro-war blood mongers to claim that they are the true supporters of our troops and that people such as myself of an anti-war disposition are not, is at best a ham-fisted attempt to take the moral high ground and at worst a barefaced lie.
- Tuesday's leader column described this proposal as ‘a ham-fisted attempt at social engineering’, and it is true that the council might have seen this one coming.
- But the attempts were ham-fisted, to say the least.
- Despite my ham-fisted attempts, under Rosemary's instruction my bread emerged perfect from the oven.
- This is what separates the professional from us ham-fisted beer guzzling amateurs.
- WorldCom's in a big mess, and many of you have questions about it, so I thought that I would, in my ham-fisted, amateur way, attempt to answer them.
- Putting it explicitly in the script is ham-fisted and breaks the butterfly of imagination on the wheel of obtuse sarkiness.
- My subject-matter is to be strangled at birth before my ham-fisted attempts to bring my feeble story to life are even completed.
- But the move was seen by opposition critics as a ham-fisted attempt to have his cake and eat it.
- It's sort of like watching Leo X's inept and ham-fisted dealings with Martin Luther.
- There's something endearingly gauche and ham-fisted about the way in which this tune a-l-m-o-s-t succeeds as a Stock Aitken Waterman soundalike, but ultimately just falls short.
- It was an attempt - ham-fisted, but an attempt nevertheless - to interpret, in some Van Daniken kind of way, some of the phenomena, especially in the Old Testament.
- I have stood on the shed and waved my arms about the place making ham-fisted attempts at semaphore.
- Were it otherwise, it would remain at best a ham-fisted attempt to to ‘objectify’ the unalterably subjective.
- The Slovakians' ability to pass the ball around a pitch that was hardly conducive to an expansive approach embarrassed the ham-fisted attempts of Eriksson's men to mimic their hosts' fluency and rhythm.
Synonyms clumsy, bungling, incompetent, amateurish, inept, unskilful, inexpert, maladroit, gauche, awkward, inefficient, bumbling, useless, unhandy informal cack-handed, butterfingered, ham-handed British informal all thumbs, all fingers and thumbs
Derivativesadverb informal In a world where most guitar groups regurgitate mouldy old ideas, floundering ham-fistedly around in a sea of stupidity and borrowed riffs, it's a relief to turn to this intelligent, confident and, dare one say it, tasteful record. Example sentencesExamples - We get no sense of the Western society in which they live, apart from a ham-fistedly jolly counterplot about Ziad's friend running a pizza restaurant.
- Biotic factors have even come into the courts; they've been ham-fistedly typed into philosophies, psychologies, and tourism brochures.
- Anakin's nightmare brought tittering and giggles even from me it was so ham-fistedly portrayed.
- Turn in a fraction too hard, ham-fistedly hammer the throttle, unsettle the car by just a fraction, and the traction control strangles the lumpy, aggressive boxer beat and the car redirects power to the front.
noun informal On its own, the story would perhaps offer nothing more than an example of the Scottish Executive's increasing tendency to ham-fistedness. Example sentencesExamples - Annoying as the album frequently is, it doesn't irritate through ham-fistedness or incompetence.
- Everything since then is a joke, with the Yankees' ham-fistedness towards allowing certain items in the park while cracking down on others.
- Example of Saw's ham-fistedness - in one of the MANY achingly silly flashbacks, the police track the killer to his abandoned warehouse lair, the address of which is - STYGIAN STREET.
Definition of ham-fisted in US English: ham-fistedadjective informal Clumsy or bungling; ham-handed. 一次笨拙的尝试。 Example sentencesExamples - Putting it explicitly in the script is ham-fisted and breaks the butterfly of imagination on the wheel of obtuse sarkiness.
- This is what separates the professional from us ham-fisted beer guzzling amateurs.
- My subject-matter is to be strangled at birth before my ham-fisted attempts to bring my feeble story to life are even completed.
- There are other indications that the plot - which has been widely portrayed as a ham-fisted attempt by a band of mercenaries to seize power in an oil-rich state - had wider backing.
- Manufacturers, pubs and bars are eager to head off what one industry insider said could become ‘some ham-fisted attempt to clamp down’.
- Anyone familiar with my previous ham-fisted attempts to establish myself as a domestic goddess will find this new urge more laughable than laudable.
- The Slovakians' ability to pass the ball around a pitch that was hardly conducive to an expansive approach embarrassed the ham-fisted attempts of Eriksson's men to mimic their hosts' fluency and rhythm.
- But the attempts were ham-fisted, to say the least.
- It's sort of like watching Leo X's inept and ham-fisted dealings with Martin Luther.
- It was an attempt - ham-fisted, but an attempt nevertheless - to interpret, in some Van Daniken kind of way, some of the phenomena, especially in the Old Testament.
- Were it otherwise, it would remain at best a ham-fisted attempt to to ‘objectify’ the unalterably subjective.
- It was a ham-fisted attempt which was doomed to failure.
- I have stood on the shed and waved my arms about the place making ham-fisted attempts at semaphore.
- For the pro-war blood mongers to claim that they are the true supporters of our troops and that people such as myself of an anti-war disposition are not, is at best a ham-fisted attempt to take the moral high ground and at worst a barefaced lie.
- WorldCom's in a big mess, and many of you have questions about it, so I thought that I would, in my ham-fisted, amateur way, attempt to answer them.
- Despite my ham-fisted attempts, under Rosemary's instruction my bread emerged perfect from the oven.
- Its ham-fisted attempts to modernise the service plunged the post office network into crisis.
- But the move was seen by opposition critics as a ham-fisted attempt to have his cake and eat it.
- Tuesday's leader column described this proposal as ‘a ham-fisted attempt at social engineering’, and it is true that the council might have seen this one coming.
- There's something endearingly gauche and ham-fisted about the way in which this tune a-l-m-o-s-t succeeds as a Stock Aitken Waterman soundalike, but ultimately just falls short.
Synonyms clumsy, bungling, incompetent, amateurish, inept, unskilful, inexpert, maladroit, gauche, awkward, inefficient, bumbling, useless, unhandy
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