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bumbling

 
Adjective bumbling has 1 sense
  1. bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed - not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
    Antonym: adroit (indirect, via maladroit)
Verb bumble has 3 senses
  1. botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
    --1 is one way to fail, go wrong, miscarry
    Derived form: noun bumbler1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something
  2. stumble, falter, bumble - walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"
    --2 is one way to walk
    Sample sentence:
    Sam and Sue bumble
  3. bumble, stutter, stammer, falter - speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"
    --3 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something
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