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

Coined by analogy with Death Star, because many people believed Novell was bungling the lead in Unix systems exactly as AT&T did for many years.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

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

Stratagem, to be efficient, should be not only deft, but thorough; else it was bungling, not diplomacy.

From At Last by Harland, Marion