ham-fisted Betydning & definition

Eksempler på ham-fisted

• It is likely that the editors felt that if they did not censor their own publications voluntarily, they would eventually encounter more ham-fisted outside review by the government.

• It has been a tawdry and ham-fisted attempt to score short-term party-political advantage.

• However, it would have been hard to conceive of a more ham-fisted, slapdash and incompetent procedure for doing so.

• I have never seen business transacted in this ham-fisted way in all my life.

• Surely, that would be regarded as a very ham-fisted way of carrying on.

• Frankly, reliance on ham-fisted, dogma-driven policies is not.

• It was a ham-fisted attempt but that is what one is led to when trying to protect the franchise system.

• One certainly does not want to have ham-fisted regulations which are incapable of enforcement.