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

One tabloid denounced the side as "donkeys", with Robson later labelled a "traitor" and "bungler Bobby" when it emerged he would join Dutch side PSV Eindhoven after the tournament.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2020

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

Immediately all her fears vanished, for they had hardly gone up the short side of the room before she knew that if any one was the bungler it was she.

From Across the Stream by Benson, Edward Frederic