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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse [syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1928 ham-handed

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. colloq. clumsy, heavy-handed, bungling. Derivatives: ham-fistedly adv. ham-fistedness n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as ham-fisted, you mean that they are clumsy, especially in the way that they use their hands. They can all be made in minutes by even the most ham-fisted of cooks. ADJ