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

Yet today, Antioco is now widely assailed as a fool, a bungler and worse.

From Forbes • Sep. 21, 2013

Bernadotte had behaved so badly at Wagram, that Napoleon sent him to Paris with the stern rebuke, "A bungler like you is no good to me."

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe