Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
fumble . - noun An instance of
clumsiness , especially of the hands or fingers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing lack of skill or aptitude
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Examples
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Many critics have denounced what they describe as the fumbling of the case against former president Moshe Katsav by Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz.
JPost Headlines 2009
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As for those instances of humiliation — whether in fumbling through French text before a ten-year-old ... or in the stories that I have lived and that will never be told — my mind now calls up a peaceful bergerie, wherein an unspoiled baby would come to suffer all humility; this, instead of me.
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But with the spectre of The Hague on the horizon, perhaps this desperate, defensive fumbling is all it has left.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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As for those instances of humiliation — whether in fumbling through French text before a ten-year-old ... or in the stories that I have lived and that will never be told — my mind now calls up a peaceful bergerie, wherein an unspoiled baby would come to suffer all humility; this, instead of me.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Does make an effort to secure the ball before running and fumbling is not an issue. ...
USATODAY.com 2005
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My only hope here is that Schwimmer manages to direct the film well and the idea of fumbling a film about a topic that could really do a good job of getting a strong message out there.
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Never again will the White House be able to point to his often-praised performance after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, without skeptics recalling the fumbling and slow-off-the-mark response of his administration after the hurricane and the flooding in New Orleans.
09/16/2005 2005
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A party that is described as fumbling, confused and scared is unlikely to win elections even if they endorse the wholesale round-up of hippies and the nuking of Mecca.
Hullabaloo 2005
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A party that is described as fumbling, confused and scared is unlikely to win elections even if they endorse the wholesale round-up of hippies and the nuking of Mecca.
Hullabaloo 2005
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A party that is described as fumbling, confused and scared is unlikely to win elections even if they endorse the wholesale round-up of hippies and the nuking of Mecca.
Hullabaloo 2005
karpkatamala commented on the word fumbling
Satan ran around fumbling at his neck like a headless chicken as the Devil inspected the tear in his cape through the gaping hole in his stomach, resting on the ground.
January 18, 2018