0 doing things in an awkward or unskilled way when using the hands or dealing with people:
The report criticizes the ham-fisted way in which complaints were dealt with.
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.
