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bumbling

[buhm-bling]

adjective

  1. liable to make awkward blunders.

    a bumbling mechanic.

  2. clumsily incompetent or ineffectual.

    bumbling diplomacy.



noun

  1. the act or practice of making blunders.

    The bumbling of their officers cost them the battle.

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • bumblingly adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of bumbling1

First recorded in 1525–35; bumble 1 + -ing 2
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Our devotion to corporate jargon fuels enough inspirational business literature to cave in a library, most of which is useless, like the writings of Mark S.’s bumbling brother-in-law Ricken Hale.

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Yet something in the direction, something like affection for these bumbling adults and young adults, lightens the tone.

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Move over Mark Darcy, there's a new handsome, charming and slightly bumbling man in town: Alexander.

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Sometimes they were frightening, sometimes bumbling, always heavily armed.

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Spryly hilarious, Kelly lends the henpecked husband’s subversive streak a bumbling gentleness.

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