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• s  lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
  ham-handed governmental interference

• Owing in large part to the Administration's ham-handed advance work, the strident conservative anger that erupted this summer over health-care reform has shifted from town halls to .
• Veterans of one-and two-reel shorts of the '30s, the Stooges enjoyed an extraordinary revival on TV in the late '50s, when their ham-handed slapstick endeared them to a new .
• As long as we're talking about ham-handed measures, we might also want to consider the most ham-handed pay regulation of all progressive income taxes.

• bumbling
• bungling
• butterfingered
• ham-fisted
• handless
• heavy-handed
• left-handed

News & Articles

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• Movie review: White House Down
  Director Roland Emmerich managed to use his ham-handed technique to make the most entertaining, cheesy, dumb-ass movie of the summer (so far). by Ed Johnson-Ott I had more fun at White House Down than at any movie I've seen so far this summer. This is that rare summer flick that delivers exactly what it promises: two-plus hours of rollicking, preposterous, often downright cheesy action with lots ...
  June 28, 2013 - Nuvo
• Concert Previews
  Brad Paisley Until "Accidental Racist," the well-meaning but ham-handed attempt at a race-related conversation with LL Cool J on his new album Wheelhouse, Brad Paisley did pretty much everything right in his career. And though the country guitar
  June 28, 2013 - Philly.com

Quotes

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• Austan Goolsbee in FOXNews
  That's a pretty ham-handed description of what I answered,Goolsbee said of the memo's description of "political positioning." "A: In no possible way was that a reference to NAFTA. And B: In no possible way was I inferring that he was going...
• Jon Kyl in Forbes
  I think the confusion and the ham-handed way that these firings was done certainly undermines the confidence of the Justice Department,Kyl said Sunday. "And part of his effort to come up and testify before the Hill will be to restore some...
• Pervez Hoodbhoy in Seattle Times
  To my mind, it seems ham-handed insensitivity that brought Negroponte and Boucher to Pakistan. Because certainly no one has welcomed their visit here,said Pervez Hoodbhoy, a leading political commentator. "It's a sign of panic, anxiety, of...