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- adverb In a
ham-handed manner; clumsily or heavily; withoutlightness ; notgently .
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Examples
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Dehumanizing kids in the way that MTV's Skins does so ham-handedly is as tedious as it is crass.
Cathleen Falsani: MTV's Skins: Suffer The Little Children Cathleen Falsani 2011
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Dehumanizing kids in the way that MTV's Skins does so ham-handedly is as tedious as it is crass.
Cathleen Falsani: MTV's Skins: Suffer The Little Children Cathleen Falsani 2011
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Of course, Sue Lowden was the one gave "chickens for checkups" its legs by ham-handedly confirming that poultry barter for health care is a legitimate policy prescription.
Sharron Angle's `chickens for checkups' moment? Greg Sargent 2010
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Instead, he went on to ham-handedly conflate Islamic with Arab.
Matthew Yglesias » Irony Watch: Islamic Solidarity Games Break Down Over Gulf Naming Dispute 2010
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Dehumanizing kids in the way that MTV's Skins does so ham-handedly is as tedious as it is crass.
Cathleen Falsani: MTV's Skins: Suffer The Little Children Cathleen Falsani 2011
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And besides, is it so awful that Johnson could have sung the song to a man as well as a woman, or for Minogue to point this out, however ham-handedly?
'X Factor' hunk Danyl Johnson (kinda) outed by Dannii Minogue | EW.com 2009
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Unfortunately, the novel's ultimate attempt to integrate the narrator's dislocated experiences into a more coherent account of a life gone wrong then recovered, which is ham-handedly reinforced by the explicit revelation that the novel we have just read has literally been written by the narrator as a capstone to that recovery, robs it of some of its accumulated force.
Narrative Strategies 2009
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Dehumanizing kids in the way that MTV's Skins does so ham-handedly is as tedious as it is crass.
Cathleen Falsani: MTV's Skins: Suffer The Little Children Cathleen Falsani 2011
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There is also a retelling of the Icarus myth, which is rather ham-handedly told.
Ivan Katz: World Premiere of Daron Hagen's Opera Amelia 2010
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All the training was designed pretty ham-handedly to show that no mere civilian could ever understand the pain and agony a cop goes through and that the officer "on the ground" must never, EVER be second-guessed.
Oversight Steve Perry 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word ham-handedly
adv. In a ham-handed manner; clumsily or heavily; without lightness; not gently.
July 18, 2015