bumbling
Example Sentences
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But I always thought of it as kind of a portrait of parenthood, bumbling through parenting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
"The island would not be the same without him. He's still bumbling, still a wee bit getting the wrong end of the stick quite a lot."
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
When attached to a character, indeterminacy manifests itself as confusion, and the novel mines a lot of humor from the bumbling of its poet-antihero.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Even George W. Bush — the bumbling boardwalk caricature that he is — could deliver a State of the Union address without going off-prompter.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
I wonder if I’ll ever not be bumbling and weird around Phil.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
