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UK
/bˈʌmblɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈbəmbəɫɪŋ, ˈbəmbɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbəmbəɫɪŋ, ˈbəmbɫɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
ham-handed governmental interference
could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature
a bumbling mechanic
a bungling performance
How To Use bumbling In A Sentence
- Lee's debut on the Xbox does not resemble a dragon, but prefers to plod along like a sloth, short on all the crucial fronts, lazily bumbling along everywhere else.
- Got back to the polling station, and the turnout was still bumbling along in its slow way, if much quieter than before.
- Haddock, the explosive, semi-sozzled scion of Marlinspike Hall; Cuthbert Calculus, the nearly deaf genius inventor; Thompson and Thomson, the bumbling identical-twin detectives; and opera diva Bianca Castafiore, aka the Milanese Nightingale, who is the sole female character to recur in Hergé's Tintin stories. Tintin & Co.
- They put us in a cell, and the next day some bumbling judge bound us over.
- EA: A lot of indie films seem to celebrate mumbling, bumbling and general inarticulateness. Erica Abeel: A Dangerous Method Is an Action Movie for Grownups
- David Wenham plays a knockabout, bumbling political adviser whose life is falling apart.
- With a contemplative bite of her lip, Mrs Bennet finally answered the anxious and bumbling Collins.
- So I said hello and on the way to the car I vowed to never speak again except via my laptop, because I am obviously nothing but a bumbling doofus who should remain locked inside away from normal people.
- Her character, Angela, goes for a Bohemian lifestyle and an affair with bumbling cop Matthew Modine.
- Pasión gitana por sangre española (Gypsy Passion for Spanish Blood), by Víctor M. Ánchel, an award-winning novella about a clumsy American vampire who becomes the ringleader of a gang of bumbling petty criminals in Andalucía. MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part I )