adjective
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not skilful with one's hands; clumsy; awkward
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inconvenient
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Etymology
Origin of unhandy
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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
Memphis boasts an unhandy Handy Man named Peter Thomas who convulses viewers by spilling paste on his sponsor and gravy on his guests.
From Time Magazine Archive
For years one unhandy thing about this Caesarean seemed to be the place where it occurred.
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
I don't know no unhandier houses for gettin' out a corpse.
From Hocken and Hunken by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He admitted as much when, afterwards referring to this meeting, he spoke of the Missouri Radicals as "the unhandiest fellows in the world to deal with in a discussion."
From The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights by John F. (John Ferguson) Hume
Indeed, Michael Groder, though of a slight and wiry build, was the unhandiest man with his fingers that ever I had met with.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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