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backhanded [ˌbækˈhændıd] ADJ

high-handed ADJ

red-handed ADJ

short-handed ADJ

stranded [ˈstrændıd] ADJ

farmhand [ˈfɑːmhænd] N

landed [ˈlændıd] ADJ

underhand [ˌʌndəˈhænd] ADJ, underhanded

open-handed ADJ

left-handed ADJ, left-hand

high-minded ADJ

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And thanks to their ham-handed interventions, coal rebounded in a big way.
www.energytribune.com
This is not an argument to plug new data into ham-handed accountability measures, but to empower consumers to vote with their tuition dollars.
www.nationalreview.com
The ham-handed polices are not only destroying any hope of peace.
www.greaterkashmir.com
Eleven-year-old boys, after all, tend to be less bothered by things like ham-handed happy endings or an unsatisfactory commitment to nihilism.
torontoist.com
But not in the ham-handed and lawless manner in which the government wants to do it.
www.milligazette.com
Our governments become less effective and more ham-handed at the same time.
blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org
And often when it tries to, it does so in such a ham-handed fashion that it does more harm than good!
www.thehindu.com
In another writer's hands, the constant invocation of childhood adversity would seem like a ham-handed attempt to assert credibility.
observer.com
Boogie-woogie forever changed piano playing, as ham-handed black piano players transformed the instrument into a polyrhythmic railroad train.
en.wikipedia.org
It also has its detractors, including many cops, who found its application was ham-handed, mishandled, and a very likely a constitutional overreach.
www.officer.com

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