Noun: ham-fistedness
- The property of being clumsy and awkward, and thus excessive
"What seemed sharp and pointed onstage comes across pedantically in the film, which treats its subject with a clumsy ham-fistedness.";
- heavy-handedness, ham-handedness
Type of: awkwardness, cack-handedness [Brit, informal], clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness