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What does ham-fisted mean?

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Adjective
  1. Lacking skill in physical movement, especially with the hands.
  2. (by extension) Lacking skill in general.
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This is what separates the professional from us ham-fisted beer guzzling amateurs.
I have stood on the shed and waved my arms about the place making ham-fisted attempts at semaphore.
And a too jarring, ham-fisted, funeral dirge of a score by usually dependable composer Terence Blanchard doesn't help matters any.
My subject-matter is to be strangled at birth before my ham-fisted attempts to bring my feeble story to life are even completed.
Its ham-fisted attempts to modernise the service plunged the post office network into crisis.
However, when we impose back to work legislation like this in a ham-fisted way, it sides with the employer.

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