[
US
/ˈbəŋɡəɫd/
]
[ UK /bˈʌŋɡəld/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌŋɡəld/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
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.