blunder
noun
a gross, stupid, or careless mistake.
was blundering
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past progressiveof blunder.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The whole time I was doing this I had the impression that I was doing something slightly wrong, that I was blundering into some hushed and private space, intruding.
From Time ● Mar. 8, 2016
And it seemed by mid-decade that virtually everyone with something to invest was blundering about in its turbid flood like a shark, snapping up artworks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Figs, alone in the school-room, was blundering over a home letter, when Cuff, entering, bade him go upon some message, of which tarts were probably the subject.
From Boys and girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
Whether it was blundering, sullenness, insolence, or rancour of party, I cannot tell; but I shall trouble myself no more about him.
From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift
A month or so later, Phips was blundering pilotless into the St. Lawrence, with two thousand Massachusetts men on thirty-four vessels.
From The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 by Julian Hawthorne
