bungled

Example Sentences

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Her claims have triggered demonstrations, promises to tighten the law and criticism that Chancellor Friedrich Merz has bungled his response.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

South Korea's former president Yoon Suk Yeol capped a remarkable fall from grace on Thursday when he was sentenced to life imprisonment over his bungled efforts to impose military rule.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

On the bungled hiring of a management team whose role was not entirely clear.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

Nigel Inkster, a former director of operations at the British foreign-intelligence agency MI6, said he thought the British government had bungled the case rather than intentionally scuttled it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

One recent morning she had served him a bungled breakfast of sugared eggs and salted coffee, then blamed it all on “a silly dream”—but a dream the power of daylight had not dispersed.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote