Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who bungles; a clumsy, awkward workman; one who performs without skill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who makes
mistakes because ofincompetence
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
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Examples
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On Imrill Kand, he had been called bungler, a child bereft of common sense and shamefully slow to learn.
Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989
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Bush is no longer in office ... what's O'bungler's exit plan ... got a clue?
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He was remembered mostly as a "bungler," (Amy Lowell's term) for his role in altering Dickinson's work.
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Are you sure the author didn't misspell "bungler"?
Latest Articles 2008
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Are you sure the author didn't misspell "bungler"?
Latest Articles 2008
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According to my Websters, a tinker can also be a "bungler" and "to tinker" can mean "to fuss or putter aimlessly or uselessly", and these are the connotations I am referring to in this post, rather than the itinerants who I have nothing but the utmost respect for.
Jakartass 2008
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She ditched the bungler she'd arrived with and walked to the Old Town with this new stranger.
Baby Blue Penny Goring 2011
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Lop-Ear, struggling with the second puppy, scowled at me and intimated by a variety of sounds the different kinds of a fool and a bungler that I was.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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Vito still harbored resentment toward that bungler.
What Is Life? vic fortezza 2011
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For the ability to draw me into an unfamiliar world and make me care deeply about its people, for making a bland, socially inept bungler sympathetic and appealing, The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
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