The Collaborative International Dictionary
ham-fisted \ham-fisted\ ham-handed \ham-handed\adj. not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; clumsy; bungling; -- also used metaphorically of actions; as, ham-handed governmental interference.
Syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed.
Wiktionary
a. clumsy, heavy, or inept; not delicate, light or gentle.
WordNet
adj. not skillful in physical movement 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, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed]
Usage examples of "ham-handed".
The newcomers, three-year Academy men or reserve ensigns, gloried in their prima-donna freedom from ship routine: sleeping late, playing acey-deucey and cards, fogging the ready rooms with tobacco smoke, drinking gallons of coffee and lemonade, eating big meals and great mounds of ice cream, killing time between drills and lectures with chatter of sex, shore leave airplane mishaps, and the like, perpetrating ham-handed practical jokes.
He wasn't violent, but within ames-ace of flying into a passion when Delabole tried, in his ham-handed way, to coax him up to bed.
Any ham-handed lurch at the joystick was instantly dumbed down into a gentle, nonlethal veer or dip.