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
verb
feel about uncertainly or blindly
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- She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom
verb
make one's way clumsily or blindly
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- He fumbled towards the door
verb
handle clumsily
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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
drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder
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- fumble a grounder