bunglesome
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of bunglesome
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The strips of gunny sacking which he had refused because they looked bunglesome he could see now were an immense protection against cold and wet.
From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Caroline Lockhart
Dr. Cook reached the Pole, I doubt Peary, his observations bear the stamp of inexcusable inaccuracy and bunglesome carelessness.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook
With great effort his hearers refrained from laughter as they listened to what they thought was the most bunglesome address that ever came from the lips of a public servant in a civilized land.
From Unfettered A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
If the training of the bowels and bladder will replace the245 diapers with drawers, the baby will attempt to walk sooner than when encumbered with a bunglesome bunch of diaper between the thighs.
From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler
The simplest orders and directions received from his troop's commander, he either forgot to perform or executed in such a bunglesome manner as to drive Lieutenant Perkins' irritable nature to the verge of hysteria.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. by Various
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