[
US
/ˈfəmbəɫɪŋ, ˈfəmbɫɪŋ/
]
[ UK /fˈʌmblɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /fˈʌmblɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
showing lack of skill or aptitude
his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf
a bungling workman
did a clumsy job
How To Use fumbling In A Sentence
- The filly's head whirled around and she nickered softly before fumbling toward me, nudging my palm as I held my hand out.
- We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.
- Jay snuggled back down into his goose down pillows and picked up a tennis ball to ideally throw at the ceiling, then he looked at Chris who was still fumbling with his words.
- Fumbling, my fingers clumsy and slow, I fought with the buttons on his soaking-wet shirt.
- With fumbling fingers, he took his transmitter out from where it had been hidden in his cloak.
- She was fumbling around in the dark looking for the light switch.
- The cast does its adequate best - you can't blame the players for occasionally fumbling such leaden material.
- I was sitting in Panera Bread last night, fumbling around with proxies in an attempt to get around their ham-fisted network filtering.
- Set in Easter Ross, it follows the Bain family from David and Jean's premarital fumblings to the moment when their grown-up son sets off for a better life across the Atlantic.
- While the Canadian government, for all its faceless fumbling bureaucracy, isn't infallible, we've also never had an iron-fisted strongman declare every Monday a holiday to honour his dog.