Adjective : a ham-handed approach to dealing with people that hurts a lot of feelings. From Dictionary.com.
This is an incredibly ham-handed move from Camp Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Amplifies Criticism Of Obama Over Wright] Reference
It's a kind of ham-handed gesture of symbolic environmentalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Stumper Stickers] Reference
It's a particularly ham-handed way of keeping his options open. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Super-Del Whip: Wright Makes Super-Dels More Eager To Back Obama] Reference
They way they've managed this has also been incredibly ham-handed. From Wordnik.com. [Dem Leaders Planning To Release Statement On Escalation Today] Reference
O'BRIEN: Some ham-handed tactics, no matter which way you slice it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2003] Reference
He has stood up to similar ham-handed attempts to bully him throughout. From Wordnik.com. [McAuliffe: Joint Ticket Would Be "A Great Idea"] Reference
Also, Obama won't make the same ham-handed mistakes that the Clintons did. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
"That's a pretty ham-handed description of what I answered," Goolsbee said. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Memo Says Obama Adviser Did Say Obama NAFTA Talk Was Political] Reference
It's just not usually so overt and ham-handed as practiced against the Chicks. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Rintels: Grammys: Yes to Chicks, No to Censorship, Consolidation] Reference
The artwork was ham-handed and cloyingly sweet in a coloring book sort of style. From Wordnik.com. [sa-land Diary Entry] Reference
To me the tell came in that pause before she gave her ham-handed response to Gibson. From Wordnik.com. [AP Turns On McCain] Reference
"You're forgetting your ham-handed attempt to appear cool by using hip-hop slang.". From Wordnik.com. [Summer Party Advice, From Father to Son] Reference
“You're forgetting your ham-handed attempt to appear cool by using hip-hop slang.”. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Party Advice, From Father to Son] Reference
He was trying to comfort her in that ham-handed way men do, and she was a little touched. From Wordnik.com. [A Grave Denied]
And, B, the president and this administration have very ham-handed and amateurish response. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007] Reference
Our ham-centered meals, our ham-handed manners and our hammy singing all come in for ribbing. From Wordnik.com. [Book World: Ron Charles reviews 'Parrot & Olivier in America,' by Peter Carey] Reference
Its ham-handed attempts to minimize the problems when they first emerged only exacerbated them. From Wordnik.com. [Why Apple Will Survive the iPhone Glitch] Reference
Classy, and a sharp contrast to the Clinton campaign's ham-handed attempts at political theater. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Camp Again Invokes Florida Recount Debacle; Obama Camp Says They're Not Encouraging Protests] Reference
Conan has yet to accept, they're negotiating and NBC's gone about this in the most ham-handed ways. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2010] Reference
Polls like this make it so much fun on the frequent occasions when FNC's ham-handed spin backfires. From Wordnik.com. [Fox News Polls: Profiles In Loaded Questions] Reference
Whether her larger thesis is right or not, it is pretty ham-handed to lose ground during a vacation. From Wordnik.com. [TBD: A hyperlocal work in progress] Reference
ABRAMSON: Jindal depicted Louisiana as the victim of a ham-handed federal response to the emergency. From Wordnik.com. [Gulf States Frustrated At Commercial Fishing Ban] Reference
No, winning requires not only the goofy move itself but also a forceful defense of the ham-handed blunder. From Wordnik.com. [Mubarak leads the way . . . sort of] Reference
Last week they released a ham-handed videotape entitled "Just see the lies of Wu Hongda" (his Chinese name). From Wordnik.com. [When Business Met Harry] Reference
The ham-handed director was Susanna White, who intercuts compulsively, whether or not anything is happening. From Wordnik.com. ['Last Dancer': Ultimately on Point] Reference
Under their relentless questioning, the law was exposed for what it was -- a sweeping, ham-handed swipe at the First Amendment. From Wordnik.com. [An Indecent Proposal] Reference
The committee on foreign investment in the United States absolutely ham-handed and ineffectual in assessing exactly that issue. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2008] Reference
Illarionov blames the Yukos affair, as well as the government's ham-handed meddling in the economy, especially the energy sector. From Wordnik.com. [FEAR FACTOR] Reference
In years past, Beijing repeatedly drove islanders into the independence camp with its fiery rhetoric and ham-handed military threats. From Wordnik.com. [Why Anger The Dragon?] Reference
But I simply didn't buy the ham-handed way he descended into Taxi Driver territory, no matter how inexorably brutal his world may be. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Fest Day 9, 10 and 11: The Irish, The Scots and Werner Herzog] Reference
Thanks to their ham-handed approach to governing and disregard of the sensibilities of their constituents, both of them will soon be gone. From Wordnik.com. [DeMorning DeBonis: Sept. 21, 2010] Reference
The ham-handed attempt to depict a bombed-out biological weapons plant near Baghdad as a baby-formula factory seemed destined to fail, too. From Wordnik.com. [Americans Hunker Down] Reference
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