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Meanings of bungling in English
Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.
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Examples for "bumbling"
Examples for "bumbling"
1
In fact, in my own bumbling way, I had similar notions once.
2
She was the petrified and bumbling victim; I was the ruthless pursuer.
3
You two will just have to manage it by bumbling and sneaking.
4
The waddling and bumbling Little Tramp character propelled Chaplin to global fame.
5
Do you disdain these low-angle inclines as the playground of bumbling neophytes?
1
Ireland has hundreds of left-handed golfers - enough to form a club.
2
Given the fact that you're left-handed, that strategy would be only half-effective.
3
Rosina, of course, looked exactly like me, except that she was left-handed.
4
Bad news for southpaws: left-handed sticks are not permitted in regulation play.
5
Tends to jump right, which will cost him at this left-handed track.
1
And sometimes she is what her killer made her: handless, bloodied, featureless.
2
Rinaldi remembers a headless, handless body inquiry a few years back.
3
Seeing it, Rothgar held up his handless left arm for silence.
4
He went to the couch, but he found himself a handless, fetless man.
5
The King hesitated-and then laid his handless arm across Roland's shoulder.
1
I'm convinced that a butterfingered airport security worker damaged my laptop during a search.
2
Attention all butterfingered geeks: Panasonic announced on Thursday an Android tablet made especially for you.
3
In trying to hold what they had, it was no surprise that the league's bottom side proved so butterfingered.
4
When dear brother Rory (sweet butterfingered Rory) had let his chisel slip, there was something of Frank to profit from the pain.
5
Plenty of ink has been spilled about the major labels' butterfingered approach to new technology, but every once in a while, they get it right.
1
Most have worked with greater economy than Whitehall's ham-fisted and costly initiatives.
2
And you would have said I had acted like a ham-fisted leader.
3
He wiped his face with one ham-fisted hand, examining the red streaks.
4
And I did it with the added amenity of ham-fisted imagery.
5
Dresden smirked at the ham-fisted threat but kept his mouth shut.
1
It's ham-handed, and often sarcastic, and unlikely to have the intended effect.
2
How did the Bishop of Chester respond to Mr. Pepys's rather ham-handed revelations?
3
I am offended you should think I would be so ham-handed with it.
4
It was a ham-handed way to enter the SA dissertation.
5
It was the opening he'd been hoping for, though the segue was admittedly ham-handed.
1
An Australian news crew was among the protesters during the heavy-handed operation.
2
Their heavy-handed treatment of frustrated citizens saw six lives lost on Wednesday.
3
The protesters have complained of a heavy-handed police response to the protests.
4
Loud accusations of heavy-handed Australians using unreasonable force against outraged young Irishmen.
5
Like I said, Mr. Barnes, we wouldn't want to be that heavy-handed.
Usage of bungling in English
1
One of the world's richest countries, they said, was bungling its response.
2
Republican and Democratic lawmakers condemned the IRS for bungling the review process.
3
But English cricket has a history of unfathomable decisions and bungling administrators.
4
She was built of planks sewn together in a very bungling manner.
5
They did a bungling bit of work, and the cylinders have overheated.
6
He never looks and never is so big and bungling as there.
7
Thank heaven the bungling detective had missed the departure of Louise altogether.
8
They wouldn't hire some bungling gas inspector, they wouldn't forget a lookout.
9
And a sorry, bungling business I made of it, to be sure.
10
Hemerlingue, even yellower than usual, inwardly accused himself of bungling and imprudence.
11
Revenge is sweet; now it is Edinburgh that is accused of bungling.
12
What sort of bungling novice am I, anyhow, for work like this?
13
No wonder the Lord's work is done in such a bungling way!
14
Don't you think I could if I wished without bungling the effort?
15
But Thursday's pre-hearing was told that government bungling had held the case up.
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Australia's shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, accused the government of bungling the decision-making process.
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Bungling through the time
Bungling across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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