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Bumbling   /bˈəmbəlɪŋ/  /bˈəmblɪŋ/   Listen
Bumbling

adjective
1.
Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.  Synonyms: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed.  "A bungling performance" , "Ham-handed governmental interference" , "Could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"



Bumble

verb
1.
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.  Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil.  "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
2.
Walk unsteadily.  Synonyms: falter, stumble.
3.
Speak haltingly.  Synonyms: falter, stammer, stutter.



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"Bumbling" Quotes from Famous Books



... dark-blue twills like Mrs. Gronauer, junior's. Topcoat—sable. Louis' hair thinning. Tonic. O God! let me sleep! Please, God! The wheeze rising in her closed throat. That little threatening desire that must not shape itself! It darted with the hither and thither of a bee bumbling against a garden wall. No! No! Ugh! the vast chills of nervousness. The flaming, the craving ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst



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