bungle
verb (used with object)
to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch.
bungler
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a word derived from
bungle.
Example Sentences
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This season's closer shows Hank as a survivor driven by passion as opposed to a happy-go-lucky bungler who somehow manages to survive by accident.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2022
But I had to cook the $24 Wagyu on the stove-top, a slightly daunting prospect for a culinary bungler like me.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2021
The show’s Ford was Chevy Chase, a lanky slapstick comedian who portrayed the commander in chief as President Pratfall, a genial bungler stumbling across the world stage with a complacent grin.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2018
Roseanne abandoned the blue-collar bungler stereotype and provided a rare non-insulting depiction of working-class families in American television.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2018
I had scarce time to slip aside, ere the next man had flung Jocelin by for a bungler, and the third trampled him down.
From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur F. Wallis
