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 )
Equally tired is Duncan's assimilation and protection of a bumbling youth.
At first he appears unassuming and on occasion bumbling yet his disarming manner, like that of Louis Theroux, is one that seems to entice his interviewee into spilling the beans.
The Frankenstein creature is kid stuff horror: one-dimensional, mundane, bumbling, awkward, clumsily destructive.
If he stars in the operetta, he would no doubt cast himself as an endlessly bumbling, ageing roué.
Tour de force historical comedy about two bumbling botanists sent into the southern wilderness by Thomas Jefferson to look for something that isn't there.
With the exception of Chamberlain, the Union generals are presented as either bumbling or self-absorbed.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee says the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, has become a symbol of what it calls bumbling bureaucracy, and it should be abolished. CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2006
Evans is completely miscast as the bumbling Interpol agent, while Forlani appears star-struck most of the time, which gets in the way of any type of performance.
Mr. Howell, especially, treated the bumbling man-child like he was sub-human.
Alexander begins the film as a socially awkward scientist, bumbling and sweet, with a penchant for pocket watches and professorish vested suits.
Killing is perfected but creating is limited to vague bumbling ideas, and small companies operating on grants and well wishes from a stymied, bumbling government. "My sins my own. They belong to me, me."
But he was very friendly in a slightly bumbling avuncular sort of way.
A typical story of naive backpackers bumbling about in a foreign land, you might think. Times, Sunday Times
Mouths caked numb by a throat-cracking berg wind, we lurched back along the beach, bumbling along the craggy rocks to rest beneath the overhang, surfed out strandlopers looking wild and red-eyed.
They put us in a cell, and the next day some bumbling judge bound us over.
Davis was never comfortable in debates, facing the bumbling Bill Simon only once during last year's re-election campaign.
When I am walking in a crowded room, especially while carrying a spillable object in my hands balanced above other precariously situated object, and some rude motherchicken decides to bump into me, spill my long-anticipated tasty lunch on the ground, and then continue on his bumbling way, I should be able to sentence that person to eternal damnation. Bluemeany Diary Entry
Comments by Lam to the effect that life is a never-ending process of self-examination seem unintentionally at odds with the reality of characters who are bumbling along semi consciously.
Tenor Michael König acquits himself well as Katerina's mercurial lover Serguéi, and Ludovít Ludha, in the role of Katerina's abusive stepfather Boris, summons that notorious Shostakovian enigma as authoritarian kulak and bumbling sexual predator. A Rollicking and Riveting 'Lady Macbeth'
Would he allow the Fed to be told how to adjust interest rates by a bumbling Dutchman?
He is a television regular, lacerating the aspirations of bumbling, wannabe chefs.
Nils Hognestad as Desmond is a bit of a ringer for Prince William and manages an impressive degree of bumbling charisma.
The flat focused inwardly upon the study; Andrew reigning there, a bumbling royalty, to whom they became cheerful minions. AN OLDER WOMAN
He can appear aloof and there's something bumbling about his character. Times, Sunday Times
Many on the Continent regard the British as clueless and bumbling on the slopes, but less liable to be reckless.
The thought of Boris Johnson, the faux-bumbling Tory toff, who once famously referred to black children as piccaninnies in an article, becoming Mayor, fills me with dread. Racially profiled in the West End and other stories
The rest was just her bumbling about the stage saying "Wassup Melbourne?"
Instantly, their bumbling antics transform the movie into a juvenile farce of racist, sexist and homophobic slurs—no, it's not funny.
In the harsh glare of the campaign spotlight a picture of a bumbling Palin emerged that scared more people than it inspired.
On top of which, while Gzowki's bumbling style of questioning barely masked a furious desire to get at the truth, Rodgers' trademark giggle is just plain annoying and hides little.
A typical story of naive backpackers bumbling about in a foreign land, you might think. Times, Sunday Times
On screen, however, he's a bumbling, fumbling, stuttering feeb.
A.I. (artificial intelligence) warriors occasionally join the party, bumbling along beside you and setting charges to open doors and clear obstructions for you.
Equally adept at comedy and drama, Cranham has played bumbling detectives, passionate army dentists and good-hearted pastors with equal proficiency.
If I hadn't done that, I'd probably still be bumbling along wondering why I could barely do a leg curl.
The Frankenstein creature is kid stuff horror: one-dimensional, mundane, bumbling, awkward, clumsily destructive.
As you approached a bazaar you would come across a traffic jam made up of bumbling herds of fat-tailed sheep, strings of bad-tempered camels and heavily-laden tractors bringing in farm-folk with their crops.
Blackberries go often by the name of "bumblekites," from "bumble," the cry of the bittern, and kyte, a Scotch word for belly; the name bumblekite being applied, says Dr. Prior, "from the rumbling and bumbling caused in the bellies of children who eat the fruit too greedily. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
In fact, he was one of Satan's minions, disguised as a bumbling idiot, tempting me with the sweet nectar of life in the form of an unpassable deal. One Cent Baby
If he was a bumbling character in a tv comedy he'd be a good laugh.
It isn't just the Guardian that employs bumbling halfwits, you know.
Popular and familiar love songs underscore every bumbling error or ill-conceived machination of the lovers' various courtships.
Of course, we should not be too hard on the bumbling loser.
Your bumbling is particularly gratifying because times were tough before this happened. Times, Sunday Times
The patient kept bumbling on about his operation.
A typical story of naive backpackers bumbling about in a foreign land, you might think. Times, Sunday Times
At first he appears unassuming and on occasion bumbling yet his disarming manner, like that of Louis Theroux, is one that seems to entice his interviewee into spilling the beans.
He may seem like a bumbling fool, but not much gets past him. The Sun
a bumbling mechanic
Greer scorns the spectacle of ‘a modern Hamlet bumbling and dithering around the stage, shadow-boxing with his own personality, especially when the part is played in a cinematic inward-turning way.’
One tends to think of wizards either as bearded and severe, bearded and bumblingly kindly, or bearded and dark and vaguely sinister. PodCastle » PC012: Barrens Dance
The handsome Canadian spent more than 60 years doing serious roles in movies and on television, but he is probably best known as the bumbling cop Lt. Frank Drebin in the "Naked Gun" spoofs. Celebrity-free Twitter, James Franco, a Pink Floyd movie
Thus, no matter how he lies about the reason for his invasion of Iraq, or how badly it has gone, bumblingly and tragically ruinous, with so many lives destroyed, and no matter how many thousands of terrorists it has brought into being, to criticize his policy or the architects of it is said to aid the enemy. Archive 2008-06-01
There are no idiot dads acting like bumbling lunkheads in front of their sneering, wisecracking wives and children.
Featured in the exhibition is a painting of Hotei asking "What is the sound of one hand?" along with 17 other depictions of the bumbling monk as everyman: sleeping, meditating, riding in a boat, shouldering a large mallet, and -- most unusual of all -- floating as a kite in mid-air. The Sound Of One Hand: Paintings Of Zen Master Hakuin Showcased In New Exhbition (PHOTOS)
He cannot tell if the flashes of wit and intelligence he witnessed in private were more revealing than the president's bumbling and ignorant moments in public.
It plays host to numerous courses and masterclasses for musicians at every level, from the great to the good to the bumbling amateur.
It's a welcome change to see Hugh Grant play the role of a devious weasel instead of the awkward, bumbling, confused nice guy in his previous films.
With Giamatti I think Bingham would be a bit more bumbling and dorkish. UP IN THE AIR Review – Collider.com
N is also for Neville, Harry's cowardly, bumbling but well-meaning friend and the butt of most of Malfoy's bullying, although he wins out in the end.
Mocked in Italy as a bumbling rural priest, he is seen as dull and uncharismatic.
He can appear aloof and there's something bumbling about his character. Times, Sunday Times
He draws out great performances from his cast as well - Peter Kelly's barmy theatre owner and David Ireland as his bumbling nemesis being just two examples.
The old, charming, bumbling kid has become slick and self-assured.
Three bumbling French thieves with a history of botching jobs (badly) are given one last chance to make good with their boss.
Newly discovered papers reveal that behind his bumbling front Betjeman was an exceedingly good spy.
Like Wallace, Saunders also appears in his own journalism as the bumbling, inexperienced journalist, but Saunders is more believable as a bumbler, which is to say that he is a bumbler, which is part of the charm. Joshuah Bearman: Journeys With George (Saunders), or Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers
Most of us are novices on the computer — just bumbling about on them.
He looked a little less of the bumbling dishevelled oaf he loves to cast himself as.
Malcolm was a complete one-off; a big, bumbling man, who wore dirty, ill-fitting suits and smelt of fags, but was absolutely hilarious when on stage.
Another one is 'bamboozle' which I always picture as a dorkish bumbling dimwit, but a lovable one. Archive 2005-10-01
For the record: Gove fluent no noter/no facter, Ainsworth bumbling noter/no facter. Archive 2007-10-01
Thus begins their humorous descent into a bumbling life of crime.
He can appear aloof and there's something bumbling about his character. Times, Sunday Times
When he won, the elite questioned whether the college dropout was up to running the country and scoffed at his reputation as a bumbling public speaker, bon vivant and serial womanizer.
And in a parliamentary debate before the war, he rescued a bumbling John Major by speaking passionately in favour of war.
He may seem like a bumbling fool, but not much gets past him. The Sun
The new guest was followed closely by a puny boy in puke - green and two heavy bumbling guys in brown.
With a glance over her shoulder, as the horse pounded forward without needing to be led, she could see two of the bumbling gatemen running after her while the other pair ran to the stables for horses.
Later, Tom told me I wasn't the bumbling fool I'd thought.
This time the ever-bumbling Inspector Clouseau is on the ever-meandering trail of a thief who steals such priceless artifacts as the Magna Carta (nothing is made of that theft), the Shroud of Turin (Clouseau calls the pontiff Mr. Pope and detects that he's very spiritual) and the Pink Panther Diamond, whose re-disappearance -- it was stolen in the previous film too -- may have been required for the perfunctory script to fill 90 minutes. 'Into You' Is a Frayed Valentine
Their bumbling averts cataclysmic disasters that confront the Earth - most of which are their own creation.
The madman gambit is the bumbling nation-state version of “I meant to do that!” Matthew Yglesias » The Madman Strategy
The bumbling nature of armoured animals is neatly summed up by an anecdote concerning a family of three-banded armadillos.
Society will ‘spend’ lives on lots of things, and it would be nice if we did so with some amount of introspection rather than just by bumbling along.
She asks him how its going and he bumblingly responds that this is his first torture. October 18, 2007
There was a wicked queen, kind-hearted heroine, dashing prince, bumbling villains and a lot of people wandering round the forest.
Within this context, bumbling assistants and loose-tongued associates screw up and screw each other to a dry, droll, parodic effect. Brad Balfour: Q&A: Channeling Cheney/Rumsfeld, Veteran Actor David Rasche Steps In the Loop
It is also a relief to see him in a role that buries his floppy-haired, bumbling nice guy image.
Newly discovered papers reveal that behind his bumbling front Betjeman was an exceedingly good spy.
Nothing could have been clearer, but Floyd, whom Bruce Catton generously describes as a bumbling incompetent, ignored the letter because, among its wealth of cogent information, it contained one trifling error - the writer stated that Brown had an agent "in an armoury in Maryland". THE NUMBERS
A great heart, a sweet personality, but bumbling and awkward.
Legislative Assembly Speaker Judy Maddigan was not there, although bumbling and soon departing Jim Claven was, chairing the meeting so tragically that Bracksy didn't even notice him.
He was wrong. Newly discovered papers reveal that behind his bumbling front Betjeman was an exceedingly good spy.
Satan in the cinema is either represented as a hideous special effect or a comic, bumbling trickster.
And he was very funny, in that bumblingly effective Brit way, and wise, as the Doctor should be, even when he's screwing up. William Bradley: A Welcome Blast From the New Doctor Who
Newly discovered papers reveal that behind his bumbling front Betjeman was an exceedingly good spy.
The film sees Rowan Atkinson bringing his bumbling Barclays Bank ad spy to the big screen.
Bush had to resolve doubts that -- of what Gore called the bumbling, babbling Bush. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election Presidential Debate: The Voters Respond - October 11, 2000
Brown warned the world that they have '50 days to save my career', and said that he faces a catastrophic future of tragic opinion polls, election defeats and global ignominy if world leaders don't come up with ways of convincing the world he isn't a bumbling, half-blind, gibbering loon with a grasp on reality that is tenuous at best. Brown: World has '50 Days to Save My Career'
I thought I saw McCain mumbling ... as well as stumbling and bumbling. Your Right Hand Thief
On the one hand I field calls from the ‘old’ Graham, who in his usual endearingly bumbling way will ask me where and when this year's Open Championship is being held.
The personalities were also altered: the Scarecrow was intensely accident-prone but strangely indifferent to his bumbling, the heartless Tin Man was aggressively rude and insensitive to others and the Lion, although still jittery when facing real and perceived threat, is often more of a fussbudget than a brazen sissy. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
I could hear him bumbling around in the kitchen.
The first act is a romantic tragedy in which Shahrukh Khan plays a bumblingly loveable would-be actor who falls for a glamorous Bollywood diva. Dust Forms Words 100 Must-See Movies: 71 to 80
A puffy little cloud of cotton wool is cumulus humilis, a fair weather friend bumbling along in a summer sky. Times, Sunday Times
He may seem like a bumbling fool, but not much gets past him. The Sun
I find such notions preposterous; the film is littered with the usual array of appealingly Coenesque characters and caricatures, and the brothers seem to regard them in a loving manner (they're certainly treated with far more affection than the bumbling fools of DVD Verdict
It is written very much in the author's voice, that genial, somewhat bumbling, self-deprecating character we all think we know.
The patient kept bumbling on about his operation.
But it falls flat in the futuristic fridge, and she calls a bumbling Quantum Mechanic The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
Greer scorns the spectacle of ‘a modern Hamlet bumbling and dithering around the stage, shadow-boxing with his own personality, especially when the part is played in a cinematic inward-turning way.’
The National Intelligence Agency, which could be described as a bumbling brutal fool, should be shut down, according to Kobus ANC Daily News Briefing
With elegance so well attended to by Genaux and Tarver, it fell to the two spoiled sisters, Clorinda and Tisbe and (in this opera) their bumbling and graspingly nasty father, Don Magnifico, to supply the buffoonery. In performance: WCO's "Cenerentola"
The Frankenstein creature is kid stuff horror: one-dimensional, mundane, bumbling, awkward, clumsily destructive.
He is often regarded in the West as a bumbling eccentric, renowned for issuing barmy decrees.
So me and Sean get along great, I'm the clumsy bumbling idiot and he's the intellectual prick who laughs whenever I do something idiotic which so happens to be quite often.
I suppose my suggestions would have to be something in the line of ultra-subminiaturized computers, where one sinister fine-etched molecule does the work of three big bumbling brain cells? The Creature from Cleveland Depths
Whereas the Secretary of State, too, was always bumbling over herself to find the right "diplomatic" words, here -- with her guard down -- she is suddenly perfectly articulate, if also impressively contemptuousness (in this environment of otherwise higher learning). Michael Shaw: Reading The Pictures: Condi ... Beyond The Fourth Grade
Alexander begins the film as a socially awkward scientist, bumbling and sweet, with a penchant for pocket watches and professorish vested suits.
All of this helped give the bored-looking Euro-dork behind the counter the impression that Simon was a wide-eyed and bumbling ingenu, something he then compounded by tumbling the Styrofoam cup from the counter and spilling the cappuccino across the floor. A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away
The Carpenters, 2 clowns dressed as carpenters, using the skit to discuss the cross, as the clowns bumblingly attempt to build a cross. No Chris Matthews run for the Senate?
More recently there was John (bomb Iran) McCain, who can best be described as a bumbling old fool. NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories
In particular, he had watched "absentminded" and "bumbling" Aubri best Skandranon time and time again over a game of stones, so it wasn't likely that he would ever be fooled into thinking that Aubri wasn't as sharp as his human partner. The Silver Gryphon

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