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Bungling   /bˈəŋgəlɪŋ/  /bˈəŋglɪŋ/   Listen
Bungling

adjective
1.
Showing lack of skill or aptitude.  Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent.  "Did a clumsy job" , "His fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
2.
Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.  Synonyms: bumbling, 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"


Bungle

verb
(past & past part. bungled; pres. part. bungling)
1.
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.  Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, 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.
Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly.



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"Bungling" Quotes from Famous Books



... said, last night, after dinner, as he bent and graciously kissed Alice de Breville's hand, "forgive an old savage who pays you homage and the assurance of his profound respect." The next moment my courtyard without rocked with his reprimand to a bungling lieutenant. ...
— A Village of Vagabonds • F. Berkeley Smith
... you partickerlerlery to do it," said David, bungling dreadfully over the long word in his anxiety—"you more than ...
— The Hawthorns - A Story about Children • Amy Walton
... bold intruding guests, And took them unprepared to give us welcome. Their scouts we killed, then found their body sleeping; And as they lay confused, we stumbled o'er them, And took what joint came next, arms, heads, or legs, Somewhat indecently. But when men want light, They make but bungling work. ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 6 (of 18) - Limberham; Oedipus; Troilus and Cressida; The Spanish Friar • John Dryden
... his patience, whether it was in bungling, in harvesting his graft, or whether it was a form of slackness. Nor could they help doing so, for patience, a wonderful purposeful patience, was his greatest characteristic. Every other feature of his personality was subservient ...
— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum
... hemorrhage. The nut issued spontaneously from the right side. In the afternoon the auditory canal was found excoriated and red, and deep in the meatus the kernel was found, covered with blood. The patient had been so excited and pained by the bungling attempts at extraction that the employment of instruments was impossible; prolonged employment of injections was substituted. Discharge from the ear commenced, intense fever and delirium ensued, and the patient had to be chloroformed to facilitate the operation of extraction. ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould


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