Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.
1 She knew he was no fumbler , but she'd thrown a fashion changeup at him.
2 I feel a fumbler , a bungler.
4 This was a palpable hit at more than one stumbler and fumbler after the truth, and several hoary heads were bowed.
5 Knew the clumsy fumbler nothing of big blood-vessels?...
6 He wasn't even a real, honest-to-goodness psychologist-justa fumbler with a little training trying to outguess the greatest mind of the age.
7 The other one, the loathsome machine - fumbler , would be either asleep or worshipping the stinking, groaning monster they were forcing him to ride in.
8 He was no fumbler , led away from his purpose by the first diversion; his ambition was clear before him, and he never fell below it.
9 We're absolute masters of technique and, conversely, absolute fumblers at self-knowledge.
10 He was the man of action among fumblers .
11 Jack felt the subtle tickle of soft impacts beneath him, insistent scrapings and pickings, reminiscent of the window fumblers of last night.
12 And I suppose that that sharp criticism of us fumblers in the field, and half-expressed thought, 'How much better I could do it!'
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