ham-handed
Example Sentences
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Having Star Wars alum Jackson make a thinly veiled reference to the Force feels equally ham-handed.
From Washington Post
The identification process was at times so haphazard and ham-handed that it left identifiable men unaccounted for, or worse, sent them to the wrong families.
From New York Times
Parts of the essay are a little ham-handed, possibly because the prompt itself is nonsensical.
From New York Times
Gov. Jay Inslee’s ham-handed proposal to upend residential zoning ran aground after opposition emerged on both sides of the political aisle.
From Seattle Times
One ham-handed way of resolving the tension is by insisting that people “Separate the art from the artist,” an especially bizarre request given how many such artists rely on associating their creations with their personas.
From New York Times
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