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Значения термина bumbling на английском

Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.

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Lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance.

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Examples for "bungling"
Examples for "bungling"
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One of the world's richest countries, they said, was bungling its response.
The Guardian
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers condemned the IRS for bungling the review process.
Reuters
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But English cricket has a history of unfathomable decisions and bungling administrators.
The Guardian
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She was built of planks sewn together in a very bungling manner.
Great African Travellers: From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Sta...
5
They did a bungling bit of work, and the cylinders have overheated.
The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise
1
Ireland has hundreds of left-handed golfers - enough to form a club.
The Irish Times
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Given the fact that you're left-handed, that strategy would be only half-effective.
Shift
3
Rosina, of course, looked exactly like me, except that she was left-handed.
The Asylum
4
Bad news for southpaws: left-handed sticks are not permitted in regulation play.
The Guardian
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Tends to jump right, which will cost him at this left-handed track.
The Guardian
1
And sometimes she is what her killer made her: handless, bloodied, featureless.
Naomi’s Room
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Rinaldi remembers a headless, handless body inquiry a few years back.
Bare Bones
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Seeing it, Rothgar held up his handless left arm for silence.
The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest
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He went to the couch, but he found himself a handless, fetless man.
Active Service
5
The King hesitated-and then laid his handless arm across Roland's shoulder.
Swan Song
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I'm convinced that a butterfingered airport security worker damaged my laptop during a search.
Wired
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Attention all butterfingered geeks: Panasonic announced on Thursday an Android tablet made especially for you.
Wired
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In trying to hold what they had, it was no surprise that the league's bottom side proved so butterfingered.
The Guardian
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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.
The Hellbound Heart
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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.
Wired
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Most have worked with greater economy than Whitehall's ham-fisted and costly initiatives.
The Guardian
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And you would have said I had acted like a ham-fisted leader.
The Guardian
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He wiped his face with one ham-fisted hand, examining the red streaks.
Nocturnal
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And I did it with the added amenity of ham-fisted imagery.
Wired
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Dresden smirked at the ham-fisted threat but kept his mouth shut.
Leviathan Wakes
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It's ham-handed, and often sarcastic, and unlikely to have the intended effect.
Reuters
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How did the Bishop of Chester respond to Mr. Pepys's rather ham-handed revelations?
Quicksilver
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I am offended you should think I would be so ham-handed with it.
Changeless
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It was a ham-handed way to enter the SA dissertation.
The South African
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It was the opening he'd been hoping for, though the segue was admittedly ham-handed.
The Beast Within
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An Australian news crew was among the protesters during the heavy-handed operation.
News.com.au
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Their heavy-handed treatment of frustrated citizens saw six lives lost on Wednesday.
The South African
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The protesters have complained of a heavy-handed police response to the protests.
Reuters
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Loud accusations of heavy-handed Australians using unreasonable force against outraged young Irishmen.
The Irish Times
5
Like I said, Mr. Barnes, we wouldn't want to be that heavy-handed.
Masked
Использование термина bumbling на английском
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In fact, in my own bumbling way, I had similar notions once.
The Gods Themselves
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She was the petrified and bumbling victim; I was the ruthless pursuer.
Brains: a zombie memoir
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You two will just have to manage it by bumbling and sneaking.
Surrender to the will of the night
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The waddling and bumbling Little Tramp character propelled Chaplin to global fame.
Reuters
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Do you disdain these low-angle inclines as the playground of bumbling neophytes?
Climbing Magazine
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He emerges as a bumbling romantic, at times desperate but always likeable.
The Irish Times
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Without that talent, a killer was nothing but a bumbling leg breaker.
A Day Dark as Night
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Instead, he was left bumbling like the old scream-crying Pauline of yore.
News.com.au
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I wanted to replicate the bumbling route taken by Lenin in April 1917.
The Irish Times
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There was a hot sun, and the bees were bumbling in the heather.
The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
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This was not some bumbling, half-baked attempt at universal health care.
Mutated
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During a brief and sometimes bumbling set, the rap star makes it clear.
The Irish Times
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Sometimes it was a concerned father, a distraught mayor, or a bumbling constable.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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Hearing the Proxy speak is like watching children perform declawed and bumbling Shakespeare.
Seven Surrenders
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Diaz describes Oscar bumbling through life between New Jersey and the Dominican Republic.
Wired
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A razor-thin line has always separated the brilliant from the bumbling.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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