Definition of "ham-handedly" [ham-handedly]

• In a ham-handed manner; clumsily or heavily; without lightness; not gently. (adverb)

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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?"
• "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."
• "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."