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单词 ham-handed
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Definition of ham-handed in English:

ham-handed

adjectivehamˈhandɪdˌhæmˈhændəd
North American
  • Clumsy or bungling; ham-fisted.

    a ham-handed attempt
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One of the problems, though, is that when these politicians try to connect with young people, they do it in this very ham-handed way, and they end up looking silly.
    • It is true that the ham-handed attempts by the Health Ministry to regulate this sector have now reached stifling bureaucratic proportions.
    • The ham-handed coup triggered a leadership crisis and widespread protests, as well as lingering bitterness and distrust.
    • How many times will we have to muddle through ham-handed attempts to shoehorn users into limited choices with proprietary protocols that will eventually be replaced by common. open ones?
    • It is clear there are people whose jobs are threatened by this ham-handed completely cynical exercise.
    • Western experts have criticised the U.S.'s ham-handed attempts to muzzle the channel, saying it could provide access to a long-overdue two-way street in the global flow of information and opinion.
    • Colleagues were increasingly worried about his judgment and hold on reality, with his ham-handed attempts to dictate to politicians and his acquisitions for acquisition's sake.
    • These civil-liberties concerns have been accentuated by the Pentagon's ham-handed efforts to explain the research effort.
    • Today, after three years of government efforts, however ham-handed, to strengthen aviation security, some very expensive coverage is starting to be available.
    • I haven't seen such raw arrogance, such disdain for democratic principle, such ham-handed use of power, since J.R. and Dallas bit the dust.
    • As a novice, I am nervous that my ham-handed attempts to help Ajan stay upright will injure her, but Mohammed shows me how and Ajan accepts my help with grace.
    • Nor did her husband's ham-handed collaboration, in the crass style of a dad dancing at the school disco, do anything to retrieve the dignity of the situation.
    • The New York Times describes it as ‘a clunky and precious literary exercise… self-important and ham-handed.’
    • The ham-handed handling of the popular mass movements against the corrupt regimes in Bihar and Gujarat resulted in great public anger and dissatisfaction.
    • The danger, of course, is that we alienate the very populations whose cooperation we need through ham-handed prosecutions that leave them afraid to talk to the government at all.
    • Because Katz ‘loses’ the instruction manual, he deploys his powers in a ham-handed and clownish manner.
    • Freed of external political pressures, they are far more likely to produce sensible social outcomes than any ham-handed state mandate on affirmative action.
    • Costner's worst trait as a director, besides his ham-handed use of symbolism like precious china or fluffy white puppies, is a disregard for subtlety.
    • But a detailed analysis of the report revealed much more ham-handed politicking than historical truth-telling.
    • Politics is wily, skilled and intelligent, not clumsy and ham-handed.

Derivatives

  • ham-handedly

  • adverb
    North American
    • Most informed observers would agree that this command, although often misunderstood and ham-handedly implemented, has helped religious faith thrive in the context of American democracy and pluralism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But the point can be made so frequently and unsubtly - and even ham-handedly - by the convention organisers that it frequently assumes something of the character of self-caricature.
      • The entire dark tone, from the environments to the acting to the plot itself, feels almost ham-handedly delivered and extremely forced, making you not particularly care about any of the characters, especially our ‘hero.’
      • The real problem is that what we have here, in the first decade of the 21st century, is a Soviet-style centralised bureaucracy intervening ham-handedly in the market.
      • Jump sideways now, because a van-load of bank robbers lead by Winston Briggs is arriving at the same bank where Conway is ham-handedly trying to sweet-talk a pretty teller.
  • ham-handedness

  • noun
    North American
    • But whereas Mr. Tewary was memorably credited in 1989 with declaring that credibility is for the cocktail circuit, such ham-handedness would seem gauche today.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This ham-handedness was near perfected as a strategy.
      • The song ‘We Are VCR ‘is the band's statement of purpose, and its awesome ham-handedness makes the song - and possibly the whole record, and maybe your week.
      • The first, and most obvious, is the ham-handedness of Ari Schlossberg's screenplay, which relies upon audience gullibility.
      • Was it financial engineering or political ham-handedness that got PG&E Corp. in trouble?
 
 

Definition of ham-handed in US English:

ham-handed

adjectiveˌhæmˈhændədˌhamˈhandəd
North American
  • Clumsy or bungling; ham-fisted.

    a ham-handed attempt
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One of the problems, though, is that when these politicians try to connect with young people, they do it in this very ham-handed way, and they end up looking silly.
    • Politics is wily, skilled and intelligent, not clumsy and ham-handed.
    • How many times will we have to muddle through ham-handed attempts to shoehorn users into limited choices with proprietary protocols that will eventually be replaced by common. open ones?
    • Costner's worst trait as a director, besides his ham-handed use of symbolism like precious china or fluffy white puppies, is a disregard for subtlety.
    • The danger, of course, is that we alienate the very populations whose cooperation we need through ham-handed prosecutions that leave them afraid to talk to the government at all.
    • It is clear there are people whose jobs are threatened by this ham-handed completely cynical exercise.
    • These civil-liberties concerns have been accentuated by the Pentagon's ham-handed efforts to explain the research effort.
    • The ham-handed handling of the popular mass movements against the corrupt regimes in Bihar and Gujarat resulted in great public anger and dissatisfaction.
    • The New York Times describes it as ‘a clunky and precious literary exercise… self-important and ham-handed.’
    • Nor did her husband's ham-handed collaboration, in the crass style of a dad dancing at the school disco, do anything to retrieve the dignity of the situation.
    • Today, after three years of government efforts, however ham-handed, to strengthen aviation security, some very expensive coverage is starting to be available.
    • Colleagues were increasingly worried about his judgment and hold on reality, with his ham-handed attempts to dictate to politicians and his acquisitions for acquisition's sake.
    • Freed of external political pressures, they are far more likely to produce sensible social outcomes than any ham-handed state mandate on affirmative action.
    • I haven't seen such raw arrogance, such disdain for democratic principle, such ham-handed use of power, since J.R. and Dallas bit the dust.
    • The ham-handed coup triggered a leadership crisis and widespread protests, as well as lingering bitterness and distrust.
    • It is true that the ham-handed attempts by the Health Ministry to regulate this sector have now reached stifling bureaucratic proportions.
    • As a novice, I am nervous that my ham-handed attempts to help Ajan stay upright will injure her, but Mohammed shows me how and Ajan accepts my help with grace.
    • Western experts have criticised the U.S.'s ham-handed attempts to muzzle the channel, saying it could provide access to a long-overdue two-way street in the global flow of information and opinion.
    • But a detailed analysis of the report revealed much more ham-handed politicking than historical truth-telling.
    • Because Katz ‘loses’ the instruction manual, he deploys his powers in a ham-handed and clownish manner.
 
 
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