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Definition of cack-handed in English: cack-handedadjective kakˈhandɪd British informal 1Inept; clumsy. a great song ruined by cack-handed production Example sentencesExamples - I know the police are overstretched but I don't think they leave the investigation of attempted murders to cack-handed private investigators.
- The subtlety of the original, and the intensity rendered as much by its bleak, thoughtful ending as the stark black and white visuals, are entirely absent from this cack-handed renovation.
- He said: ‘I can only describe it as an amateurish, cack-handed attempt at health promotion by some staggeringly inept students.’
- Yesterday, though, there were no such difficulties as the belly putter he adopted just a few weeks back, and the cack-handed grip with which he has been experimenting these past few days, combined to take him out in 32 and back in 30.
- From what I'm led to believe it's all been done in a bit of a cack-handed way and in essence it seems he does not care.
- Did they deliberately conceal what was going on in a cack-handed attempt to allay public panic?
- So instead I ask the straight girls amongst you to help out the naïve and cack-handed man in your life.
- It would not be the first example of an unusually cack-handed attempt to get his message across last week.
- While this is, at first glance, a compliment, it turns out to be a rather cack-handed one.
- In the same way that referees who call too much attention to themselves on the pitch demean the spectacle by disrupting everyone's concentration, cack-handed sportscasters are also an obstacle to our enjoyment of live sport.
- The lies listed above may seem obvious or cack-handed, but remember that they don't have to stick.
- It is difficult to conceive a more cack-handed, clumsy way of running a regional fund programme, even assuming there was a case on enhanced economic performance grounds for doing so.
- But I do know good music from bad music, and I can tell the difference between talented musicians and tone-deaf cack-handed wannabes with no sense of rhythm.
- Some paintings seem unresolved, even cack-handed.
- But why should an English-based paper want to stir things in such a cack-handed fashion?
- It's just an excuse, really, to dissolve traditional barriers of class and upbringing and simply marvel at how cack-handed people are when they try and do things they know nothing about.
- Clearly his is a cack-handed attempt to cash in on the growing public desire to take wild places into the ownership and control of the communities that live around them.
- But have we really got to the stage where a single joke, however cack-handed, brings a whole profession into disrepute?
- But in pragmatic terms, it was the most cack-handed loss of a golden opportunity.
- In a kind of cack-handed way, I believe that the public takes a lead from institutions.
Synonyms clumsy, ungainly, uncoordinated, maladroit, graceless, ungraceful, inept, inelegant, unskilful, unhandy, gauche, gawky, gangling, blundering, lumbering, cloddish
Derivatives adverb The only surprise is that it has taken them so long to summon the will to do so, and that the government has acted so cack-handedly. Example sentencesExamples - A few years ago I cack-handedly attempted a relationship with a man who was very good at anecdotes.
- There was also a case for the re-organisation of regiments, however cack-handedly the Government went about it.
- So I put forward these ideas however subtly or cack-handedly to the extent that I can get away with it.
- His comments, which may have been expressed cack-handedly, but which stemmed from deep personal beliefs, did not cost the life of one British soldier.
noun But the furore over the fate of Scotland and Wales was merely the shining example of a remarkable display of cack-handedness performed by a faltering government machine over a full 48 hours. Example sentencesExamples - The basic idea and story structure are fine, but they're executed with such cack-handedness and lack of subtlety that it's simply impossible to care.
- Pardon me if I show off a little, but this was something of an accomplishment for me, given my general cack-handedness when it comes to technology.
- Whatever one might surmise about his psyche - and commentators constantly return to it - his overriding problem as a would-be painter was his cack-handedness, his bludgeoning lack of feel for paint, his lack of a subject to meet his imagination and his needs.
- The first series of jokes are derived from his cack-handedness in appearing for the first time in front of the public.
Origin Mid 19th century: from cack, in the sense 'excrement', + hand + -ed2. |