ham-handedEnglishOxford American Thesaurusham-handed adjective North American his ham-handed treatment of the situation: clumsy, bungling, incompetent, amateurish, inept, unskillful, inexpert, maladroit, gauche, awkward, inefficient, bumbling, useless, all thumbs; British all fingers and thumbs; informal ham-fisted, klutzy, cack-handed, butterfingered. ▷antonyms expert.