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

Is it because we are bungling legislators that they wish for us in London?—is it because we are venal they seek our company, because we are inefficient they ask for our cooperation?

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James