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

Smothering for air, Ruth reached up bunglingly and fastened her big fur collar and started for the door.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

Of course he cannot mean to include under these observations, that class of forgeries which are so bunglingly executed as to be readily detected by the eye, even of persons not specially expert.

From Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds by Lavay, Jerome Buell

As soon as he had reached the bed of the moat, he was followed out of the window and down the rope by a second man, who came bunglingly, as if in great trepidation.

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson