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bumbler

[ UK /bˈʌmblɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

How To Use bumbler In A Sentence

  • Not a few biographies of Napoleon portray him as a megalomaniac (for which there is real evidence in the later years of the empire) and even a bumbler.
  • He was unpopular, seen as a political bumbler, and during his time hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in massive pro-democracy protests.
  • A thoroughgoing bumbler, he accidentally kills the boss's grandson and then loses the pistol.
  • Pankov, a near dwarf of a man who was widely believed to hold his job because he made such a perfect contrast to the colonel, was a perspirer, a rumpled bumbler whose few remaining strands of rapidly graying hair refused to obey grease or brush. Rostnikov's Vacation
  • He likened the situation to Chevy Chase making Gerald Ford look like a "bumbler" in 1976. The Herald-Mail Online
  • Unlike the good-natured bumbler from the Disney cartoon, this honey-happy bear is a manipulative, abrasive, self-indulgent schemer who is clearly unapologetic in his larcenous adventure. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • He said he hoped to address the enduring mischaracterization in films of Holmes loyal companion Dr. James Watson, as a "bumbler" which he blamed on actor Nigel Bruce's inaccurate portrayal. The Daily News Transcript Homepage RSS
  • Yet satire requires more than a cast of bumblers.
  • Bush, the verbal bumbler, is the Great Communicator of the age. The Bumbling Communicator
  • As to Morgan: the sooner the old bumbler is put out his own (and Wales's) misery, the better. Cheryl Gillan Shines on Question Time
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