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Meaning of ham-handed | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Clumsy, heavy, or inept; not delicate, light or gentle.

Equivalents

Български несръчен тромав

Examples

Some of the dishes arrived damaged after their ham-handed moving efforts.”
The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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