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Synonyms for ham-handed

adjlacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands

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The council majority is going to be honored by the First Amendment Society "for all they have done to put a spotlight on the subject of free speech through their ham-handed misreading of the Bill of Rights."
McDonough concludes by stringing together more tedious pro-abortion talking points, including a ham-handed NARAL poll as evidence the public is on their side.
Hadn't he visualised that in the event of his ham-handed administrative measures, he would have to contend with Qadri's rampaging hordes?
In truth, the problem with "Holler'' wasn't really the music at all, but the ham-handed, sentimentalized story line concocted to underpin it.
That was perhaps a bit ham-handed of the Obama administration, which relied on the recommendation of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), some of whose former aides assisted environmental groups in lobbying for Binz.
It began with the ham-handed way that governments in Europe and America, in particular, had taken to enforcing multiculturalism.
"Kerry has a lot of good intentions and a real sense of mission" but in practice "looks like a naive and ham-handed diplomat who has been acting like a bull in the china shop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," a columnist wrote last week in the Israeli daily Hretz.
Fu said the government is using a wide array of subtle and ham-handed tactics to persecute Christians, targeting house church leaders and churches in urban areas.
Numerous experts, officials, and even lawmakers have suggested that the Obama administration was engaged in a ham-handed coverup surrounding the deadly attack in Benghazi since the news first broke.
People expect to see trailers for other films when they go to the movies, but increasingly audiences have been subjected to ham-handed, repurposed ads for other kinds of products while they wait for the feature to start.
O'Hern acknowledged that there are those skeptical that the Quds Force would be involved in such a ham-handed plot and that it would form an alliance with drug cartels.
Although flawed by these ham-handed depictions, The Paladin Prophecy is action packed and loaded with easily deciphered mysteries, and will satisfy fantasy/adventure readers.