How to Use ham-handed in a Sentence

ham-handed

adjective

• Who doubts the law would be enforced in a ham-handed way, with people being denied the presumption of innocence?
  — U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2026
• Stearns, whom owner Steve Cohen decided had invented baseball in Milwaukee, got rid of Buck in a ham-handed and tone-deaf way.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026
• Even the film’s critic-defying, pinky-swearing fanbase may be disappointed in the barebones production, jarring plotting, tired dialogue and ham-handed staging.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
• Nowhere is the ham-handed effort more evident than in Texas, where a blend of culture war grievance and incel-targeting rage have circled the sharp-witted but mild-mannered Talarico, whose campaign is shaping up to be a fundraising juggernaut.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 2 June 2026
• Or public employee unions might put up the money, given that a Republican winner is likely to create a state version of Elon Musk’s ham-handed attempt to fire nearly everyone on the federal payroll.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026