A bungling workman. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : He bungled the job. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : He is a fool who bungles consistently. From Dictionary.com.
To assume simple bureaucratic bungling is simply simple-minded. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
She was gambling and I hate to use the word bungling but the case was bungled from the beginning, as we all know. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2006] Reference
Compromise with current morality leads to bungling, which is always despicable, and when practiced by statesmen involves men in ruin. From Wordnik.com. [A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli] Reference
Labour MP Bob Ainsworth lodges papers with court claiming allegations of his 'bungling' during Somali kidnap of Britons were totally untrue and damaging. From Wordnik.com. [Former UK defence chief sues Daily Mail for libel] Reference
I fail to understand why some people are blaming the police for "bungling" this case. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
MS was "bungling" IE with windows starting early in OSR process for win95 but anything before IE 4. x no one wanted use it. From Wordnik.com. [Techdirt] Reference
Has any thought been put forth that BHO may be "bungling" the BP oil fiasco on purpose to make the effects of the spill worse. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
British special forces have attempted to rescue a couple seized by pirates almost three months ago but the mission was aborted amid "bungling". From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Anti-pirate attack guidelines being ignored, UN says] Reference
British special forces attempted to rescue a couple seized by Somali pirates almost three months ago but the mission was aborted amid "bungling" delays. From Wordnik.com. [News24 Top Stories] Reference
"bungling" the China file, but his own sudden cancellation may well be viewed as another snub. From Wordnik.com. [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference
The White House had help in bungling the nomination. From Wordnik.com. [Foster Follies] Reference
For many Filipinos, this bungling is wearingly familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Noynoy Flunks His First Test] Reference
This job is too important to run any risks of bungling it. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods] Reference
There was never any bungling where Doctor Hilary was concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
We took care of the threat, but we are bungling the opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [Why The War Was Right] Reference
The most egregious was Gore's bungling of the Elian Gonzalez case. From Wordnik.com. [George W. Wins The 'Phony War'] Reference
I say it with shame, that it could not be much worse or more bungling anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
The next moment my courtyard without rocked with his reprimand to a bungling lieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
The overriding story was the brilliance of the Democrats 'strategy and the sheer bungling of the GOP. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge To 2000] Reference
Rather, as students of political disaster, they were furious at him for bungling his own resurrection. From Wordnik.com. [Collateral Damage] Reference
The bungling of the communist government in Hanoi has seen to that -- with help from the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The War Without End] Reference
Prime Minister Ryzhkov still presides over an army of bungling bureaucrats and hidebound conservatives. From Wordnik.com. [Why He's Failing] Reference
Gold is so clever and assured that he makes his readers think twice before accusing him of mere bungling. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie’s Company] Reference
Her family was a show, a traveling show, complete with a bungling ringmaster and a flurry of heavy women in tow. From Wordnik.com. [It's October, 1956.] Reference
But now, like some tropical banana republic, Florida stands accused of bungling the closest election of the century. From Wordnik.com. [Clouds Over The Sunshine State] Reference
Nor was the plea advanced that such bungling after the infinite was better than simple perfection in the attainable. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
They're bungling ballads in Kazakhstan, mauling Bollywood favorites in India and shout-singing Beyoncé numbers in Bolivia. From Wordnik.com. [True or False: 'Idol' Airs in Every Continent But Antarctica] Reference
By last Friday afternoon, the talk-show chatter had abruptly switched from McVeigh's heinous deeds to the government's bungling. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting For Justice] Reference
It is, therefore, to the extraordinary means used for my detection that I impute my defeat, rather than to any bungling of my own. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
We debated politics and I pitched in as a bungling photographer on a story he was pursuing about a Marine who had refused to go to Vietnam. From Wordnik.com. [The People Who Haunt Us] Reference
It is commonplace to denounce the bungling, self-serving scoundrels of Albany, who are a continuing embarrassment to the State of New York. From Wordnik.com. [Henry J. Stern: 15 Penn Plaza: The Great Giveaway] Reference
Yahya Khan (1969-72) led his country down the path of an ignominious defeat at the hands of India after bungling an internal crisis in East Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. [A Fragile Hold on Power] Reference
It is easy to see, upon reading Fremont's proclamation, that it is the work not of a soldier, but of a politician, and a bungling politician at that. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
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