Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.
Synonyms
Examples for "bungling"
Examples for "bungling"
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One of the world's richest countries, they said, was bungling its response.
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers condemned the IRS for bungling the review process.
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But English cricket has a history of unfathomable decisions and bungling administrators.
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She was built of planks sewn together in a very bungling manner.
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They did a bungling bit of work, and the cylinders have overheated.
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In fact, in my own bumbling way, I had similar notions once.
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She was the petrified and bumbling victim; I was the ruthless pursuer.
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You two will just have to manage it by bumbling and sneaking.
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The waddling and bumbling Little Tramp character propelled Chaplin to global fame.
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Do you disdain these low-angle inclines as the playground of bumbling neophytes?
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Ireland has hundreds of left-handed golfers - enough to form a club.
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Given the fact that you're left-handed, that strategy would be only half-effective.
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Rosina, of course, looked exactly like me, except that she was left-handed.
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Bad news for southpaws: left-handed sticks are not permitted in regulation play.
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Tends to jump right, which will cost him at this left-handed track.
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And sometimes she is what her killer made her: handless, bloodied, featureless.
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Rinaldi remembers a headless, handless body inquiry a few years back.
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Seeing it, Rothgar held up his handless left arm for silence.
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He went to the couch, but he found himself a handless, fetless man.
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The King hesitated-and then laid his handless arm across Roland's shoulder.
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I'm convinced that a butterfingered airport security worker damaged my laptop during a search.
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Attention all butterfingered geeks: Panasonic announced on Thursday an Android tablet made especially for you.
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In trying to hold what they had, it was no surprise that the league's bottom side proved so butterfingered.
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When dear brother Rory (sweet butterfingered Rory) had let his chisel slip, there was something of Frank to profit from the pain.
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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.
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It's ham-handed, and often sarcastic, and unlikely to have the intended effect.
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How did the Bishop of Chester respond to Mr. Pepys's rather ham-handed revelations?
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I am offended you should think I would be so ham-handed with it.
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It was a ham-handed way to enter the SA dissertation.
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It was the opening he'd been hoping for, though the segue was admittedly ham-handed.
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An Australian news crew was among the protesters during the heavy-handed operation.
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Their heavy-handed treatment of frustrated citizens saw six lives lost on Wednesday.
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The protesters have complained of a heavy-handed police response to the protests.
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Loud accusations of heavy-handed Australians using unreasonable force against outraged young Irishmen.
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Like I said, Mr. Barnes, we wouldn't want to be that heavy-handed.
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Most have worked with greater economy than Whitehall's ham-fisted and costly initiatives.
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And you would have said I had acted like a ham-fisted leader.
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He wiped his face with one ham-fisted hand, examining the red streaks.
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And I did it with the added amenity of ham-fisted imagery.
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Dresden smirked at the ham-fisted threat but kept his mouth shut.
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Trump's ham-fisted, less than secret approaches have so far backfired.
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Could this whole process be any more ham-fisted and unsatisfactory?
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We don't want some ham-fisted Jack dropping it between decks.
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But not even a ham-fisted, would-be satirist would invent the imagery of last Monday.
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It is hard to imagine the Apple of a generation ago making this ham-fisted error.
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An empty waterhoy and a ham-fisted no-seaman at the wheel letting her box the compass.
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Even ham-fisted people can manage it, says my silversmithing tutor, not looking at anyone in particular.
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GAME Fighting games are typically ham-fisted and brutal.
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Almost all the scenes about progress for women are ham-fisted in construction and feel shoehorned in.
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What sinks the movie is Jamal's ham-fisted direction.
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Otherwise, it is a mercifully brief, ham-fisted satire that can make of death no laughing matter.