Example Sentences

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On social media, Gadot and her crew were lambasted for bumblingly contributing, well, whatever this is as opposed to money or resources.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2020

Bob Denver, who played the bumblingly sweet Gilligan, was a comic "genius."

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2014

Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's six-party government was bumblingly, quarrelsomely impotent, unable even to impose order.

From Time Magazine Archive

Joseph Arthur Rank is a burly grandfather's-clock of a man, at 59 tick-tock solemn and sure, and rather bumblingly humorous when wound up.

From Time Magazine Archive

Parker bumblingly began to remove the lid of the cardboard box which he had brought with him.

From Fire-Tongue by Rohmer, Sax