adjective
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not skilful with one's hands; clumsy; awkward
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inconvenient
Other Word Forms
- unhandily adverb
- unhandiness noun
Etymology
Origin of unhandy
Example Sentences
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Perhaps there is something about Hardy that brings out an especially unhandy company.
From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2019
In an evening address in industrial Nashua, the crowd that heard Kefauver was much smaller than the one that Republican Bob Taft had drawn at the unhandy hour of 9:30 that same morning.
From Time Magazine Archive
For years one unhandy thing about this Caesarean seemed to be the place where it occurred.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, from Los Angeles to Long Island, the unhandy were entrusting chores to a new and spreading U.S. service: the home-repair club.
From Time Magazine Archive
Malcolm could see that the dinghy was an unhandy vessel, by no means as swift and easy through the water as La Belle Sauvage.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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