ham-handed
Example Sentences
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Last month, following a ham-handed government attempt to ban most social-media apps, thousands of young protesters took to the streets of Kathmandu, the capital.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025
That’s the bigger story that is being lost in the government’s egregious, ham-handed attempt to turn Ábrego García into an object lesson.
From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025
Obama, a Harvard alum, described the freeze as "unlawful and ham-handed".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025
Greece’s foreign ministry made a ham-handed bid to get rid of the hot potato by sneaking Ocalan out of the country and trying to hide him in the Greek Embassy in Kenya.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2023
As early as January 1990, sentiment on the Well had already begun to sour, and people had begun to grumble that "hackers" were getting a raw deal from the ham-handed powers-that-be.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
