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cack-handed

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cack-handed 
1. (British & Australian informal) lacking skill with your hands Rob made a cack-handed attempt to fix the door and now it won't close at all. She doesn't strike me as the practical sort - she's a bit cack-handed.
2. (British & Australian informal) lacking skill in the way that you deal with people What struck me was the cack-handed way that he dealt with the whole situation.


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I was cack-handed at golf and once I learned how to hold the club properly I could hammer that ball down the fairway almost 450 yards
Outgoing Crosby MP Claire Curtis-Thomas is not the only one who feels let down by the PM's cack-handed attitude to the parliamentary expenses row.
Byline: Brian Reade AND still the cack-handed duplicity pours out of St James' Park in the (hopefully) dying days of Mike Ashley's calamitous reign.
 
 
 
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