bungling

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
bungling
    adj 1: showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman";
           "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a
           shelf" [syn: {bungling}, {clumsy}, {fumbling},
           {incompetent}]
    2: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands;
       "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
       [syn: {bumbling}, {bungling}, {butterfingered}, {ham-fisted},
       {ham-handed}, {handless}, {heavy-handed}, {left-handed}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bungle \Bun"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bungled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bungling}.] [Prob. a diminutive from, akin to bang; cf.
   Prov. G. bungen to beat, bang, OSw. bunga. See {Bang}.]
   To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bungling \Bun"gling\, a.
   Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. --Swift.
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         They make but bungling work.             --Dryden.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "bungling":
      all thumbs, awkward, bad job, blunderheaded, blunderheadedness,
      blundering, boggling, boorish, botch, botched, botchery, botching,
      bumbling, butterfingered, careless, carelessness, clownish, clumsy,
      clumsy-fisted, cumbersome, deficient, fingers all thumbs, fumbling,
      gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, half-assed, ham-fisted,
      ham-handed, haphazard, haphazardness, heavy-handed, hit-and-miss,
      hit-or-miss, hulking, hulky, inelegant, left-hand, left-handed,
      loose ends, loutish, lubberly, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit,
      messiness, messy, muffing, oafish, ponderous, promiscuous,
      sad work, slapdash, slipshod, slipshoddiness, slipshoddy,
      slipshodness, sloppiness, sloppy, slovenliness, slovenly,
      slovenly performance, slovenry, sluttish, sluttishness, stiff,
      too many cooks, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, untidiness,
      untidy, unwieldy
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