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Adjective bungling has 2 senses
- bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent - showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
Antonym: skilled (indirect, via unskilled)
- 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 bungle has 2 senses
- 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
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
- bungle - spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!"
--2 is one way to act, behave, do
Sample sentence:
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