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

The blocks were knocked away clumsily, the falls overhauled bunglingly for the next boat.

From Sonnie-Boy's People by Connolly, James B. (James Brendan)

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

And now Mrs. Corey, as if forced to the point, said bunglingly that the young ladies had wished to come with her, but had been detained.

From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean