bungle

In their first two decades in power, they nationalized a thousand companies that then collapsed, seized farmland across the country, bungled the oil industry into steep decline and presided over the theft of untold billions.

And humans make mistakes too; many years ago, a bungled hospital extubation was the likely cause of my grandmother’s death.

Just think of the rows and bungles of the last seven weeks.

A hit-and-run driver who struck and seriously hurt a road worker after a 130mph police chase tried to blame his ex-partner in a bungled cover-up before being caught out by a Ring doorbell.

The Pirates were part of the centre-right government until they left the coalition over a bungled digitalisation scheme.