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bungle
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Wikipedia
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Bungle is a character in the British children's television series Rainbow . He is a large brown furry bear and is played by various actors, but chiefly Stanley Bates . Bungle is inquisitive but also clumsy, and each show typically represents Bungle involved ...
Wiktionary
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n. A botched or incompetently handled situation. vb. To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from bungle (v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an embarrassing mistake [syn: blunder , blooper , bloomer , foul-up , fuckup , flub , botch , boner , boo-boo ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Analysts agree that the company bungled its response to the crisis. ▪ Officers have bungled a number of recent criminal cases. ▪ The plan seemed simple enough, but the CIA managed to bungle the operation. EXAMPLES FROM ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bungle \Bun"gle\, n. A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder. Those errors and bungles which are committed. --Cudworth.
Usage examples of bungle.
A lot more Russian tanks are going to roll on through Germany if you bungle it now, and you will bungle it, you may depend upon that.
About two hundred and fifty kilometers drive south from the town is the Bungle Bungle range.
Would there be some ghastly bungle that would warn Goldfinger in time?
He sought for self-control with all the skill at his command, determined not to bungle things this time.
He brushed his mouth against hers, demanding nothing, apologizing yet again for the way he had bungled their first time together, pleading for a second chance.
Despite the blanket of propaganda, I think they sense too that Stalin and his brutal gang bungled the start of the war and almost lost it.
The world groaned as at an old joke, but Starr admired this bungling fool.
But even I am forced to admit that they are a ridiculous people, just as one must confess that the British are bungling, the Italians incompetent, the Americans neurotic, the Germans romantically savage, the Arabs vicious, the Russians barbaric, and the Dutch make cheese.
Poona, and when trouble is made, think you that the Dewan will thank us for the bungling of this?
Then she had been a naif, a country girl running away from the pain of a bungled marriage and a vacant home.
But he could not abide carelessness or a bungled job, and so the ninja had deserved the agony he had suffered.
Every day he took the same route, past the drunks bungling round the DHS emergency payout place in Upper Woburn Place, then the Kosovans washing car windscreens while their women begged at the corner of Upper Woburn Place and the Euston Road, after that Eversholt Street past Transformations then more drunks at the start of Camden High Street.
If I bungled the job, Spieler could watch Merryweather Enterprises sink, the albatross of a focusing ring around its neck.
Nabokov narrowly escaped being christened Victor by a bungling archpresbyter in a ceremony at 47 Morskaya.
Even toward the end of the night performance, no artiste let himself or herself look anything but sparkling and vivacious to the audience, and none of them bungled a single trick in any act.