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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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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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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Their total impact, however, is likely to be more gradual than heavy-handed.
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She's competent, but too heavy-handed for my taste. She regarded me solemnly.
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John's heavy-handed and arbitrary rule quickly alienated all sectors of the population.
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These heavy-handed, aggressive, and unnecessary tactics waste the time of the U.S.
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On one hand, journalists face heavy-handed strictures on what they can do.
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A Swift Pure Cry is never wilfully bleak, never heavy-handed, never moralistic.
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Oh, filthy, heavy-handed, blear-eyed world, when will you wash and be clean?
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However, their heavy-handed approach may have gone too far this time.
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Democratic city legislators condemned Lam and what they said was heavy-handed police action.
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Amnesty International, the human rights group, called the police response heavy-handed and unacceptable.
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I think that this is strong, heavy-handed action by the police, she said.