adjective
showing lack of skill or aptitude
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- a bungling workman
- did a clumsy job
- his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf
adjective
lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
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- 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
verb
make a mess of, destroy or ruin
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- I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
- the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
verb
spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
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- I bungled it!