[ US /ˈbəŋɡəɫɪŋ, ˈbəŋɡɫɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌŋɡəlɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. showing lack of skill or aptitude
    his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf
    a bungling workman
    did a clumsy job
  2. 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
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How To Use bungling In A Sentence

  • THE bungling official who lost secrets of an atomic power plant deserves a nuclear rocket up his backside. The Sun
  • What they grew dissatisfied with was Bush's bungling, his ineptitude driving oil to 80 bucks a barrel and putting America in diplomatic isolation as a Christian Zionist-led pack of cowboys, and the idea that we are stuck there nation-building for a pack of ingrateful Arab shitheads that would as soon as kill us than dip their purple fingers. The number of Americans who have died in the Iraq war...
  • With all problems we have,: 2 wars, ineffective and bungling administration, economical recession (or call it what you want) gasoline prices going through the roof mounting foods costs, John McCain second baptism is 50th on a scale 1 to 10. McCain on baptism plans: 'It's a private thing.'
  • Or, put another way, the elections were a success and a great moral victory; but the ideas that led up to them were the purest examples of bone-headed bungling; and the man who thought them all up was a dunce.
  • There are more important issues at stake than the killing of an old lady by a bungling young lout - who is himself now beyond recall. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • At best they have been portrayed as bungling incompetents.
  • The 1,000 trip was booked by a bungling official. The Sun
  • The long words are delivered without the slightest bungling; and 'bigging' finished to its last _g_. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
  • Police were accused of bungling the investigation. Times, Sunday Times
  • BUNGLING doctors left a 6½ inch metal surgical clamp inside a woman's stomach for ten months. The Sun
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