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US
/ˈbəŋɡəɫɪŋ, ˈbəŋɡɫɪŋ/
]
[ UK /bˈʌŋɡəlɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌŋɡəlɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
showing lack of skill or aptitude
his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf
a bungling workman
did a clumsy job -
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
How To Use bungling In A Sentence
- To assume simple bureaucratic bungling is simply simple-minded. Balkinization
- Yesterday's stats were put out early after bungling officials released them too soon. The Sun
- A guard was hit with a metal bar as a bungling robber snatched an empty cash box.
- I knew it was a woman from the bungling, unmanlike way that pistol was laid in the dead hand; the only question I had to answer was _which_ woman -- Fifi, Lady Stavornell, or this wretched little hypocrite. Cleek, the Master Detective
- BUNGLING firemen blasted an escaped red panda 40ft out of a tree in a botched rescue bid. The Sun
- 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
- BRITAIN'S biggest courier firm has come under fire for bungling its delivery of Tower of London poppies. The Sun
- Ransacked: Ania Cerelczak outside the gallery in Great Guildford Street Bungling thief drops mobile during ram-raid at gallery Robbers smashed their van into a London art gallery in a ram-raid that caused thousands of pounds of damage. Evening Standard - Home
- The bungling firm suddenly realised residents had hooked up their homes to the grid for free. The Sun
- A bungling thief who masterminded a plot to defraud cashpoint customers by installing a camera in an ATM machine has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
