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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "bungling" in a sentence

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    bungling


    1. shoved on the back-burner to appease a bungling Congress


    2. "The master plan is in ruins thanks to your bungling


    3. More, she had accused Mainwaring of bad management, incompetency, of being a reject of the British SIS whose bungling had resulted in the deaths of many Canadian agents


    4. That data also saved another year or more of bungling around on the design of the bomb itself


    5. The rest of the escort fighters would catch them up; they never did due to administrative bungling and eighteen young men in six slow, old aircraft went on their way


    6. Faced with the same allegation of "bungling in high office" which forced him out of office in the First World War; Churchill took the unprecedented step, during war time that is of ordering a military tribunal to be set up to investigate the break-out


    7. That German victory was countered, however, by political bungling when Germans attacked


    8. He was convinced that he could get away from these two bungling jailers but thought that if he did so he would never get to the root of what their motivation was, and maybe not even discover who they were


    9. “Yes, the bungling ninny is our father, as much as that thought displeases me


    10. And having measured, she put the glass on a tray, took it down to the library, advanced, after that single moment's bungling at the door, with the composed tread and impassive countenance of one performing a daily duty at the appointed hour, and said, her eyelids respectfully lowered, "Your drops, m'lady

    11. editor that both of them would run the story as the scam was more of a bureaucratic bungling


    12. bungling and incompetence, the Feds were eager to recover


    13. Churchill’s horrible bungling of the Norway affair the year before in 1939 should have turned all the cabinet members of the inner circle against him: yet they chose him over the stately, wise, competent Lord Halifax


    14. Crass thought that the principal piece of bungling in this affair was Hunter's failure to secure


    15. Taken off guard by my bungling affection, she held me in her arms for a moment, then pressed me gently away


    16. From all that occurred at the trial and his knowledge of Maslova, Nekhludoff was convinced that she was innocent, and at first was confident that the other jurors would so find her, but when he saw that because of the merchant's bungling defense of Maslova, evidently prompted by his undisguised liking for her, and the foreman's resistance which it caused, but chiefly because of the weariness of the jury, there was likely to be a verdict of guilty, he wished to make objection, but feared to speak in her favor lest his relations toward her should be disclosed


    17. “It ought to go now,” the boy announced, after some further bungling examination


    18. The men who had attacked Lindley and the player’s lad had been but bungling robbers of the road


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    Synonyms for "bungling"

    bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless heavy-handed left-handed clumsy fumbling incompetent

    "bungling" definitions

    showing lack of skill or aptitude


    lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands