bungler

[ US /ˈbəŋɡɫɝ/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌŋɡlɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
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How To Use bungler In A Sentence

  • These Brits are either bunglers, incompetent, mean-spirited, or they have no minds of their own.
  • The critics were down on the author as an absurd bungler.
  • The term tailor is locally employed for a bungler, a botcher, or a clumsy fellow, and these meanings have been suggested in the passage quoted. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
  • The teacher who neither teaches nor can teach them to his pupils is a _bad teacher_; the pupil who, notwithstanding the urgent warnings of his teacher, neglects the exercises that can help him to acquire them, and fails to perfect himself in them, is a _bungler_. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
  • However, when the crowds arrived on Saturday morning the USGA looked like incompetent bunglers to the 10,000 or so of paying punters trying to get into the Bridge Gate.
  • But these are bad times for organised crime in America - its popularity is down, and the public are more likely to view perpetrators as laughable bunglers rather than coldly efficient professionals.
  • (She, by the way, has a shorter, wider head; nowhere near the happenin 'scale patterns of this sartorial scurrier; and a relatively short and absolutely patternless gray tail that's clearly grown in replacement of her original tail, for which some bungler of a bird probably had to settle. JohnShore.com
  • Contrary to the Hollywood stereotype, the Nazi armies were far from being filled with rigid bunglers.
  • My experience is that they are such bunglers that such an offer would be highly irrelevant.
  • Today's front page of The Sun carries a banner headline "The adulterer, the bungler and the joker.".
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