bungle
verb (used with object)
to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch.
are bungling
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present progressiveof bungle.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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 am afraid that you are bungling matters.”
From The Traitors by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
