Newsweek called the incident a "ham-handed attempt to depict a bombed-out biological-weapons plant near Baghdad as a baby-formula factory."

That, evidently, is a ham-handed attempt to force you into buying Microsoft Office.

They dismiss the guidelines as a ham-handed attempt to intervene in the market by pampering upstarts they say are often undercapitalized and armed with poor business plans.

The ham-handed attempts to erroneously link Iraq with the Qaeda attacks destroyed the government's credibility with much of the country.

They make sense as ham-handed attempts to add fresh trinkets to an otherwise familiar experience.

Peter doesn't bite - he sarcastically calls Christina's ham-handed attempt to match him up with Jane "the sweetest thing."

Tlisova claims she has been facing severe intimidation for reporting on the ham-handed attempts to counter increasing Islamic and Chechen Insurgency in the violent North Caucasus region.

It was a ham-handed attempt to shake them.

Some Democratic committee aides voiced frustration today at what they said was a ham-handed attempt by the White House to pressure Mr. Hyde for more time.

(Lift-off in an Alphajet was less brutal than my ham-handed early attempts on the TBM 700.)