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bungle::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| Type of | fail, go wrong, miscarry |
| Derivation | bungler |
Examples of bungle
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How can the Bears bungle such a golden opportunity and expect to get another one?
From the suntimes.com
As a result, father and son both became victims of a classic bureaucratic bungle.
From the time.com
Then came the rules bungle heard round the golf world and a two-stroke penalty.
From the sacbee.com
He said he would only bungle the pronunciation and pointed to it on the page.
From the sacbee.com
Mr Smith's spokeswoman, Lauren Bradley, last night denied the bungle was his fault.
From the smh.com.au
And then came the rules bungle heard round the golf world and a two-stroke penalty.
From the nytimes.com
The novices bungle the job, the press takes up the story, and-but why go on?
From the time.com
In other words, was it pay-back for the company's Olympics security bungle?
From the guardian.co.uk
The best that can be said about the President's Watergate defense is that it was a bungle.
From the time.com
- Blunder: an embarrassing mistake
- Botch: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!"
- Bungle is a character in the highly successful British children's television series Rainbow. He is a large brown furry bear and is played by various actors, but chiefly Stanley Bates. ...
- Bungles is a series of four American black-and-white short silent comedy films produced by Louis Burnstein in 1916. While the series featured Oliver Hardy, Marcel Perez acted in the leading role as Bungles. Perez was also the director for the four films. ...
- A botched or incompetently handled situation; To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task
