Bungle
['bʌŋg(ə)l] or ['bʌŋɡl]
Definition
(verb.) spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; 'I bungled it!'.
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Definition
(v. i.) To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
(v. t.) To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.
(n.) A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Do any thing clumsily.
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Definition
n. anything clumsily done: a gross blunder.—v.i. to act in a clumsy awkward manner.—v.t. to make or mend clumsily: to manage awkwardly.—p.adj. Bung′led done clumsily.—n. Bung′ler.—p.adj. Bung′ling clumsy awkward: unskilfully or ill done.—adv. Bung′lingly.
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Examples
- I am so out of sorts that I bungle at an easy job like this! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Paul, who was unused to him and his impulses, would naturally have bungled at this offer--declined accepting the same--et cetera. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We say to the man who is tired of life that if he bungles we propose to make this world still less attractive by clapping him into jail. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It has either presented the business man with money or harassed him with bungling enthusiasm in the pretended interests of the consumer. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Nevertheless she was a great favourite with the men, and would make fifty conquests while Julia was bungling with one. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- His managers, who were all rare men, were no more expensive than the old bungling fools of his father's days, who were merely colliers promoted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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