bumbling

Example Sentences

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Plus, they also received the annual charity of padding their record with two games against the bumbling New York Jets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

They also require the world to shower prizes on them for their bumbling, second-rate work.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2026

Brilliant but frequently misunderstood, George is dismissed by one potential suspect as “a bumbling, disorganized eccentric.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

He says he feels like he's the "bumbling buffoon" in the "walled garden that is traditional publishing" and that he's committed a kind of "literary heist".

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

That was the path he had chosen: to die to all who knew him, and to all he knew—his devoted wife, his bumbling, nearsighted son, his palatial home, his vast fortune.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood