Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who blunders.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is apt to blunder.
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- noun One who
blunders .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
Etymologies
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Examples
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The military establishment in Israel believes that it is better with the "blunderer" they know than the unpredictable successor.
Raghida Dergham: Israeli Strike Aimed to Break the Syrian-Iranian Alliance 2007
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Can we really have elected a Prime Minister - a person who speaks for and represents Canada on an international, multicultural now the Chinese are right big on multiculturalism - MC world stage - the kind of blunderer that Stephen Harper increasingly appears to be?
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"'Since sectarians, as in general every kind of blunderer and miracle-man, are toppled by reality at each step, they live in a state of perpetual exasperation, complaining about the
In Defence of Marxism Lucha de Clases Editorial Board 2010
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At school, the boys' lives had been made a misery by a ridiculous and pompous teacher, Félix-Fréderic Hébert, and they had retaliated by composing mock-epics depicting him as a gluttonous blunderer.
That Ubu That He Did So Well Gabriel Josipovici 2012
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He was called "Isaac the blunderer" for his troubles.
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Apparently City's owners had decided he was not a front-of-house man, but you can't keep a blunderer down, and I'm glad to say this comeback had all the inevitability of another Barbra Streisand farewell tour.
Manchester City's Garry Cook – a man for football's crazy times | Marina Hyde 2011
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The blunderer, thinking that with this strong assistance he could not fail to defeat us.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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So maybe old Rene wasn't such a blunderer after all!
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It also explores his failings, as an FBI snitch during the 50s and a foreign policy blunderer whose machinations verged, on criminal.
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The blunderer, thinking that with this strong assistance he could not fail to defeat us.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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