Synonyms for ham-handed
- adjective
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Adjective
ham-fisted informal, heavy-handed, bungling, bumbling, left-handed, butter-fingered, maladroit, handless
Definitions
- adj. 1
Clumsy, heavy, or inept; not delicate, light or gentle.
Some of the dishes arrived damaged after their ham-handed moving efforts.
Related words
- Other spellings
- hamhanded
Example sentences
- bumbling The bumbling waiter spilled soup on a customer.
- bungling Anything worth doing is worth bungling.
By length
- 8 letters
- bumbling3, bungling3, handless
- 9 letters
- maladroit3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bumbling3 = 3 syllables).