Unhandy

Word UNHANDY
Character 7
Hyphenation un hand y
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Unhandy"

What do we mean by unhandy?

Difficult to handle or manage; unwieldy. adjective

Lacking manual skill or dexterity. adjective

Not handy, in any sense; awkward; inconvenient.

Clumsy; awkward. adjective

Not handy, unapt, clumsy, not dexterous. adjective

Of a person, or movement: not handy, inept, clumsy, not dexterous.

Awkward; not convenient.

A man who is unable to hang pictures, fix things, change tires or light bulbs, or read instructions on how to put together furniture. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Unhandy

The word "unhandy" in example sentences

See he's extremely unhandy, and these were the first blinds he's ever hung and he did it brilliantly! ❋ Lauren Thomas (2009)

It seems that everyone wants to recycle, but some consider the process either too futuristic or too unhandy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's unhandy at 300 yards, but then there's not a lot of shooting at 300 yards over there. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Next thing you know, my bathtub drain clogged and, being an unhandy single head of household with a knack for networking with all manner of service pros, I picked up the phone to call my plumber, who'd previously told me never to use Draino on antique pipes in an old house. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is a damned unhandy thing to hunt with in a lot of other situations, too. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The Hawken brothers used the Kentucky as a model for their guns, but the barrels were much shorter (26 to 38 inches), because their users had discovered that a long-barreled rifle, regardless of its advantages, was a damned unhandy thing to hunt with from horseback. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Last weekend I asked my very handy dad to come over and replace a broken faucet in the kitchen since J and I are so very unhandy. ❋ Tokyoastrogirl (2007)

Yea, yea, said my friend, I know what thou wouldest: I have been no unhandy devil to thee this long while, and thou wouldst fain keep me still; but now I will be devil no longer, on this earth at least, but will die and take my luck of it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Civ. professors from Trenton State with time on their hands have constructed a replica Pilgrim town with three windowless, dirt-floor pilgrim houses, trucked-in period barnyard animals, and lots of authentic but unhandy Pilgrim implements, built a hand-adzed paled fence, laid in a subsistence garden and produced old-timey clothes and authentically inadequate footwear for the Pilgrims themselves. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2006)

But the mechanism of the instrument required that some bolt should be loosed before the hammer would fall upon the nipple, and the unhandy wretch for an instant fumbled over the work so that ❋ Unknown (2004)

Emotionally more uncontrolled, and less sense of form than either of those others, but has a conscience, is a hard worker, great sense of duty, not much taste, some rather unhandy humour. ❋ Unknown (2004)

These unhandy travellers cluttered up our access to the water with their noisy struggles. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

They seemed just as unhandy with camels as at first; so not till dusk did we cross the railway. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

She had no sooner taken it into her hand than, whether being very hasty at it, somewhat unhandy, or that the decree of the Fairy had so ordained it, it ran into her hand, and she fell down in a swoon. ❋ Unknown (2003)

My nautical friends carp at me for getting on shadows, but I beg them to consider before they judge me, whether they have ever steered at night down a river quite unknown to them an unhandy canoe, with a bed-sheet sail, by the light of the moon. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Lacedaemonians, who were altogether unhandy and inexperienced in storming, they took the camp with great slaughter of the enemy. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

The soldiers heard our rout yelling through the night, thought us enemies of sorts, and let fly at us with their Maxim: but it jammed after half a belt, and they, being tailors from Mecca, were unhandy with it. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

And all my wandering and mountain – climbing: a necessity was it merely, and a makeshift of the unhandy one: — to FLY only, wanteth mine entire will, to fly into THEE! ❋ Unknown (2001)

"My boyfriend is so [unhandy], he hasn't [hung] a single picture in our [apartment]! ❋ Baltogirl (2011)

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