bunglingly

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A Very English Scandal finished in similar style: Norman Scott cuddling a pup, all those who bunglingly sought to destroy him either dead themselves or pretending to be.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2018

Or is he playing it as a tactic, like his elders did, though quite a lot more bunglingly?

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2013

—Ex-Mayor Hall has made a very needless stir in New York and throughout the country, and seems to have managed his disappearance very bunglingly.

From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various

The meal Crossman had bunglingly prepared lay untouched on the table.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison

By doing it well, he may help to kindle a flame in a lady's heart; at all events, to do it bunglingly would be ill-bred.

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.