Thesaurus / bungle
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Either way, it was a bungle to hope no one could prove the denial.
HOW NEW REVELATIONS COMPLICATE KEVIN MCCARTHY’S BID FOR HOUSE SPEAKERPHILIP ELLIOTTAPRIL 22, 2022TIMEI never knew him bungle over a rope or make a bad slip, and it was simply a pleasure to see him steer.
THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMANIn practically all crimes attempted by scientists they bungle their jobs completely.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSI am sure the snarling Beasts could never bungle Life as men do, darling, Who half know.
SONGS FROM VAGABONDIABLISS CARMAN AND RICHARD HOVEYNot very seriously, I am afraid, lamented Nathalie, judging from the bungle I made in trying to learn that square knot.
BLUE ROBIN, THE GIRL PIONEERRENA I. HALSEY"I'm afraid I shall make a worse bungle of it than I did of the toast," he said, as he saw her folding her hands with delight.
THE WITNESSGRACE LIVINGSTON HILL LUTZMy respect for the great narrative writers is increasing enormously, as I bungle onward.
THE BOOK OF SUSANLEE WILSON DODDThey dont bungle, they dont muddle, they dont leave anything to chance.
THE FALL OF A NATIONTHOMAS DIXONHe did not want to bungle things by being in too great a hurry.
RAYTON: A BACKWOODS MYSTERYTHEODORE GOODRIDGE ROBERTSIf you should bungle, it would ruin the first act and might kill the play.
JOAN THURSDAYLOUIS JOSEPH VANCEWORDS RELATED TO BUNGLE
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- false step
- faux pas
- fiasco
- flash in the pan
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lead balloon
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- sinking ship
- stalemate
- stoppage
- total loss
- turkey
- washout
- wreck
- ball up
- blow
- blunder
- bobble
- boggle
- bollix
- boot
- bumble
- bungle
- butcher
- distort
- err
- fall down
- flounder
- flub
- foul up
- fumble
- goof up
- gum up
- make a muck of
- mar
- mend
- mess
- mess up
- misapply
- miscalculate
- miscompute
- misconjecture
- misconstrue
- mishandle
- misjudge
- mismanage
- muck up
- muddle
- muff
- mutilate
- patch
- pull a boner
- ruin
- screw up
- spoil
- stumble
- wreck
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