bungling

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incompetent or inept

Harry made a bungling attempt to catch the ball.

An act or acts of incompetence or ineptitude

Your bungling nearly cost us our jobs.

Present participle of bungle
Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman
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
showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf
{i} work done in an awkward or clumsy manner; making a mess of something
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to execute clumsily
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{n} a botch, bad work, clumsiness
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{v} to do clumsily or badly, to botch
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To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task
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A botched or incompetently handled situation
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To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner
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To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; sometimes with up
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{i} failure; poor workmanship, inferior work
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an embarrassing mistake
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spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!"
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{f} botch, mismanage, screw up; do inferior work
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A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder
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spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!
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If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy. Two prisoners bungled an escape bid after running either side of a lamp-post while handcuffed. the FBI's bungled attempt to end the 51 day siege. = botch Bungle is also a noun. an appalling administrative bungle. + bungling bun·gling a bungling burglar. to fail to do something properly, because you have made stupid mistakes - used especially in news reports (Perhaps from a language)
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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"
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