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Bungling

adjective

1.

Showing lack of skill or aptitude. Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent. "Did a clumsy job" , "His fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"

2.

Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands. Synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed. "A bungling performance" , "Ham-handed governmental interference" , "Could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"

Bungle

verb

(past & past part. bungled; pres. part. bungling)

1.

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin. 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. "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

2.

Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly.

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"Bungling" Quotes from Famous Books

... as he scrambled into the priest's robe which the discomfited Higgins resigned to him. Evidently the bungling actor was in disgrace, for he was told to go to the office and get his pay and ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne

... you that we can rob the seth of his treasure without an outcry—and if there is an outcry, that he will not go back to those of his caste in Poona, and when trouble is made, think you that the Dewan will thank us for the bungling of this? And as to the matter of a thug or a decoit, half our men have been taught the art of the strangler. With these,"—and extending his massive arms he closed his coarse hands in a gnarled ...

— Caste • W. A. Fraser

... ever you make the Parish regret the loss of the stocks, and the overseers come to me with long faces and say, 'the stocks must be rebuilded,' why—" Here from all the youth of the village rose so deprecating a clamor, that the Squire would have been the most bungling orator in the world if he had said a word further on the subject. He elevated the horn over his head—"Why, that's my old Hazeldean again! Health and long life to ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 • Various

... or get scared. Not that there's much real danger. There mayn't be any, if the thing's cleverly managed. But there must be no bungling; and, above all, no backing out—nothing ...

— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid

... de Grost," he said, placing them upon the table. "If a bungling amateur may make such a request of a professor, may I inquire how you escaped from your bonds, passed through the door of a locked warehouse and reached here ...

— Peter Ruff and the Double Four • E. Phillips Oppenheim

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