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ham-fisted

adjective

  1. informal.
    lacking dexterity or elegance; clumsy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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As Mercatus Center bitcoin expert Jerry Brito has written, government regulation can either be ham-fisted or light to the touch.

Imagine what he looks like on a bad day—a day spent reading this hideous, ham-fisted book, say.

The White House could not have been more ham-fisted in the way it rammed the bill through Congress.

Unfortunately, you tend to pepper it with the best intentions but you deal with a lot of ham-fisted hacks.

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