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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Modelled on the excellent German Bundesgartenschauen, the project is to be a permanent and developing community amenity (unlike the earlier cack-handed British experiments with the idea in the Thatcherite '80s, where the original German system of providing amenities for run-down cities, was subverted to become cheap launch pads for second-rate development). Beijing's grid squares are filled with cack-handed collections of medium rise towers and slabs of apartments, offices, hotels and government departments which have neither visual coherence nor even that strange grandeur of extruded capitalism that make New York, Sydney or Singapore so picturesque. |
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