bungler

Example Sentences

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This season's closer shows Hank as a survivor driven by passion as opposed to a happy-go-lucky bungler who somehow manages to survive by accident.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2022

But I had to cook the $24 Wagyu on the stove-top, a slightly daunting prospect for a culinary bungler like me.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2021

The show’s Ford was Chevy Chase, a lanky slapstick comedian who portrayed the commander in chief as President Pratfall, a genial bungler stumbling across the world stage with a complacent grin.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2018

Roseanne abandoned the blue-collar bungler stereotype and provided a rare non-insulting depiction of working-class families in American television.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2018

Not a dishonest man in ordinary life, not even an unintelligent man, he was the greatest bungler ever sent by a friendly nation to another.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert