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bungled

[ US /ˈbəŋɡəɫd/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌŋɡə‍ld/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness
    a bungled job

How To Use bungled In A Sentence

  • From the beginning, the rescue operation was bungled. Times, Sunday Times
  • We must have botched the first task, because we've certainly bungled the second.
  • If it fails, the Democrats will be seen as having broken their promises and/or having once again bungled an opportunity to fix the health care mess, and we could again be stuck with the Republicans for years. Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers
  • Yes, that means more criminals in the dock and fewer bungled investigations. Times, Sunday Times
  • A robber who bungled a post office raid left police the easiest of clues.
  • Evidence that British officials bungled the ink cartridge bomb crisis grew yesterday. The Sun
  • The people around let out a pitiful laugh at my bungled attempt at humour with a cringing look in their eyes.
  • He was arrested in 1979 over a bungled post office robbery and got two years. The Sun
  • He was arrested in 1979 over a bungled post office robbery and got two years. The Sun
  • He asks why he should be made to pay for the incompetence of the bureaucrat that bungled the repossession.
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