bungling
pronunciation
How to pronounce bungling in British English:
UK ['bʌŋɡlɪŋ]
How to pronounce bungling in American English:
US ['bʌŋɡlɪŋ]
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- Adjective:
- showing lack of skill or aptitude
- not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands
Word Origin
- bungling (n.)
- 1660s, verbal noun from bungle (v.).
- bungling (adj.)
- 1580s, past participle adjective from bungle (v.). Related: Bunglingly.
Example
- 1. Those opponents were cheered both by turkey 's bungling in iran and by the mavi marmara incident .
- 2. Mr murdoch 's bungling of the crisis has cast him as a fading emperor blind to his own mortality .
- 3. The scale of the task and the bungling of the rescue make the bond market 's capitulation seem natural .
- 4. To be fair to mr musharraf , some of the bungling described in the report is unremarkable in pakistan .
- 5. Then we have this administration 's panicked sarbanes-oxley legislation , and of course the deer-in-the-headlights mr. bernanke in his bungling of monetary policy .