bungler

Example Sentences

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This season's closer shows Hank as a survivor driven by passion as opposed to a happy-go-lucky bungler who somehow manages to survive by accident.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2022

One tabloid denounced the side as "donkeys", with Robson later labelled a "traitor" and "bungler Bobby" when it emerged he would join Dutch side PSV Eindhoven after the tournament.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2020

The show’s Ford was Chevy Chase, a lanky slapstick comedian who portrayed the commander in chief as President Pratfall, a genial bungler stumbling across the world stage with a complacent grin.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2018

Roseanne abandoned the blue-collar bungler stereotype and provided a rare non-insulting depiction of working-class families in American television.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2018

But he had to admit that he was the merest bungler compared with his companion.

From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Stevenson, Burton Egbert