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bungling::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | clumsy, fumbling, incompetent |
a bungling workman.
bungling::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
a bungling performance.
Examples of bungling
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And, it must be said, the past year and a half has seen a great deal of bungling.
From the guardian.co.uk
The bungling made a skittish Congress even more skeptical of White House plans.
From the time.com
Texas, New York and Los Angeles, each a tale of epic bungling and good ol'hubris.
From the 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com
Some spies successfully uncovered dangerous plots, others were bungling fools.
From the express.co.uk
Bungling every assignment, they compound their errors by playing against type.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Melnyk held a press conference last week to express support for his bungling team.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Apparently, they're being punished for bungling communication with the public.
From the newscientist.com
Over the years, the bungling of spy agencies has made many of them figures of fun.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Gru was a good character, a lovable bungling villain and well-rounded figure.
From the latimes.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
