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Staggering clumsily (like a bee?)
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bumbling
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Word definitions for bumbling in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bumbling \bumbling\ adj. not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; as, a bumbling mechanic. Syn: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse [syn: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An act of bumble, a mistake or error especially through clumsiness. vb. (present participle of bumble English)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a couple of bumbling burglars EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Her character, Angela, goes for a Bohemian lifestyle and an affair with bumbling cop Matthew Modine. ▪ If its a civil coroners court it's portrayed as a bumbling ...
Usage examples of bumbling.
The Absentminded Bumbling Bookish Boob a Bit Too Frequent in His Use of the Sauce.
So that is how this anti- war activist, a near- blind, bumbling draftee, became a second lieutenant leading an army platoon in the war against Japan in the South Pacific.
Terrorists will always be depicted as proper Charlies: bumbling incompetents, jargon-spouting nitwits, psychotic illiterates, scruffy unlaid losers barely competent to light the fuse and retire in correct sequence.
Briefly El wondered how far along the road those two bumbling mages had gotten to yestereve on their recalcitrant mules.
And you have made the Meth into bumbling imitations of the humans you admire.
Their honest, sincere bumbling testimonies made a terrific impact on other addicts.
Of course, ultimately, painted cattleguards were like Bernabe Montoya himself, pretending to be a sheriff, when actually the title Bumbling Misfit might have suited him better than did his badge.
Martin seemed to do everything well, Celia thought, including handling a punt-something at which few people were skilled, judging by others they had passed 189 on the river and who, by comparison, were bumbling their way along.
I'm part of her story, however bumbling and cantankerous I must be in her mind.
And above the variously pitched bumbling of the bumblebees a rising and falling garble.
Knowing that their adolescent bumblings would look ridiculous even to their future selves, and worse, that such adolescence would never end?
The inane bumblings of a man who should, by now, have grown senile and sessile with age?
The new four-frame comics, however, were overwhelmingly conservative and nostalgic in spirit, nothing more than old-fashioned depictions of practical jokes and bumblings.
Lytol had worked too hard and long to make Ruatha prosper to take second place to the bumblings of an untried youth.
There, despite the efforts of the Empire's best fighter pilot, Baron Soontir Fel, and the skills of the legendary 181st Imperial fighter group, Isoto's bumblings allowed the New Republic to capture the world.