was bungling
- past progressive of bungle.
Example Sentences
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One of the world’s richest countries, they said, was bungling its response.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2020
Lord Noel-Buxton thundered that the Government was bungling its African relations, urged the Imperial Conference, meeting in London, to see to it that the peoples of the Empire were protected "regardless of race."
From Time Magazine Archive
Stratagem, to be efficient, should be not only deft, but thorough; else it was bungling, not diplomacy.
From At Last by Harland, Marion
For a bit of human sentiment she was bungling the situation unpardonably, fatally.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various
It seemed that the man on the port side was bungling; but at last—nearly a minute after the other man had lit his flare—he got going.
From The Ghost Pirates by Hodgson, William Hope
