bungle
verb (used with object)
to do clumsily and awkwardly; botch.
were bungling
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past progressiveof bungle.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 point of Keynes’s original tract was that the victors of the First World War were bungling the peace.
From Newsweek ● Jun. 5, 2011
It was the independent brain child of an anonymous group of Government publicity men who thought the U.S. press and the Government were bungling the news of the war effort.
From Time Magazine Archive
