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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. showing lack of skill or aptitude;
- Example: "a bungling workman"
- Example: "did a clumsy job"
- Example: "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
[syn: bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent]

2. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands;
- Example: "a bumbling mechanic"
- Example: "a bungling performance"
- Example: "ham-handed governmental interference"
- Example: "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
[syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bungling \Bun"gling\, a.
   Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. --Swift.
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         They make but bungling work.             --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bungle \Bun"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bungled; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Bungling.] [Prob. a diminutive from, akin to bang; cf.
   Prov. G. bungen to beat, bang, OSw. bunga. See Bang.]
   To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bungling
    adj 1: showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman";
           "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a
           shelf" [syn: bungling, clumsy, fumbling,
           incompetent]
    2: lacking physical movement skills, 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
       [syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted,
       ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed]