are bungling
- present progressive of bungle.
Example Sentences
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Rather, they say, many districts are bungling the execution or failing to muster the resources necessary to test properly.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
Both federal prosecutors and the attorneys who represent executive agencies in court are bungling lawsuits across the country because they don’t understand what they’re talking about.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2016
Anthropoids have a passion for tearing things apart, but in point of destructiveness they are bungling amateurs compared with their big-brained relative, man.
From Time Magazine Archive
"While Johnson is against only those numerous public officials who are bungling affairs that he could so competently manage, Pegler is against everything and everybody according to his whim."
From Time Magazine Archive
I must say, however, that they are bungling swindlers, and could only be successful with the greenest of travellers.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard
