butterfingers
Example Sentences
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Victory over France in round two of last year's Six Nations was delivered, in part, by Gallic butterfingers.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
The Rams would probably love to trade Akers and maybe Williams overall performance in this game — minus the butterfingers — showed them they can.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
Jeudy may be a great route runner that consistently gets open, but those butterfingers are betraying those fantastic feet.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2020
Speaking as a chronic butterfingers myself: I really don’t think your wife is going to hurt your baby.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2020
I must have looked confused because he told me, “That’s my horn, my ax, my saxophone, the thing I make all my money with, so don’t get butterfingers and drop it.”
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Vocabulary lists containing butterfingers
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 2
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