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Meanings of bungler in English

Catalan
potiner
Spanish
inepto

Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.

potiner
Usage of bungler in English
1
Of course, he was a bungler and took a hundred rash chances.
Courts and Criminals
2
He is such a clumsy bungler that he does whatever one wishes.
Cord and Creese
3
He must be a sad bungler who would spoil such a story.
A Publisher and His Friends / Memoir and Correspondence of John ...
4
A miserable bungler, a wretched dilettant-orhave you another word for it?
Maurice Guest
5
Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)
6
A skillful workman gets double the pay of a bungler, and deserves it.
The Stillwater Tragedy
7
I am a sad bungler in this great work, Miss Worth.
The Winning of Barbara Worth
8
You were a fool and a bungler not to make sure of it.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
9
The sentry who was here was a bungler with a bow.
A Prince of Cornwall / A Story of Glastonbury and the West in th...
10
We have seen that bungler from Dresden play master to my New Testament.
An Open Letter on Translating
11
You are yet but a novice and a bungler, friend Giuseppo.
The Daughter of an Empress
12
If I cannot ensure Marie's freedom now I should be a bungler indeed.
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
13
I'm a bungler, when it comes to saying things to women.
Black Caesar's Clan : A Florida Mystery Story
14
You would have gone, then, to a man of sawdust, a chicken-livered bungler!
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
15
The jack-of-all-trades is a bungler in every one of them.
Practical Ethics
16
Your mother has destroyed your regard for the poor bungler.
A Word, Only a Word — Volume 04
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Bungler through the time
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