unhandy

English

Etymology

un- +‎ handy

Adjective

unhandy (comparative unhandier, superlative unhandiest)

  1. Of a person, or movement: not handy; inept; clumsy; not dexterous.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 177:
      Bradly collected Pippies; their trick vanishing was not too swift for his unhandy clutches.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 514:
      "Strike your father, eh?" Syed Omar launched an unhandy cuff, then another.
  2. Awkward; not convenient.

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