Crossword clues for blundering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blunder \Blun"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Blundering.] [OE. blunderen, blondren, to stir, confuse, blunder; perh. allied to blend to mix, to confound by mixture.]
To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
--Swift.-
To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. --Goldsmith. Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place, And blunders on, and staggers every pace. --Dryden. To blunder on.
To continue blundering.
To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery.
Blundering \Blun"der*ing\, a. Characterized by blunders.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c. as a present participle adjective; mid-15c. as a verbal noun, from blunder (v.). Related: Blunderingly.
Wiktionary
n. The act of making a blunder. vb. (present participle of blunder English)
Usage examples of "blundering".
Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.
I saw the gigantic forms of my two great auks, followed by their chicks, blundering past in a shower of spray, driving headlong out into the ocean.
All this great ever-increasing flood of bronze, brass, chrome, Fiberglas, lapstreak, teak, auto pilots, burgees, Power Squadron hats, nylon line, all this chugging winking blundering glitter of props, bilge pumps and self-importance needs dockside space.
Nor did he intend to do so while Kurman and Cleer continued their blundering tactics.
Curiously blundering, he attempts to prove that Jeanne had visions by relating a story much more calculated to give the impression that the young peasant girl was an apt feigner and that at the request of the nobles she reproduced one of her ecstasies, like the Esther of the lamented Doctor Luys.
He felt himself to be crude, ignorant, callow, a blundering hobbledehoy who sought to match himself against the cunning of grown and desperate men.
She was blundering through the brush, huffing indignantly at branches that snagged her clothes.
They looked for all the world like an actual jousting area with a barricade down the center, which was there so that two opposing knights could ride at each other on different sides of it, and so avoid the danger of their horses blundering together.
The truman town was still far off, and they would be blundering strangers there even if they reached it, their passports poorly forged, and the Thearchy always on their trail.
I had personally led Horstmann to poor Brother Leo and the archivist Brother Padraic, and they had paid for my blundering with their lives.
She was genuinely happy for Althea, although it was difficult to imagine the soft-spoken, quiet young girl with a blundering, loud bragger like Paisley Winsloe.
One dusty hot morning as that morose lonely man was blundering awkwardly about town in search of his pig, he almost stepped on a baby robin crouched in the road, its eyes closed and its cavernous yellow beak wide open, plaintively chirping for worms.
Pushing aside a teary gentleman who was blundering toward the exit, she locked the door.
Pavek, no longer a blundering, unclever templar, but a strong and brave man who fought with an obsidian trident.
There were dangerous delays as parties lost each other, blundering towards lethal zones: ghul-nests and undergang lairs.