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

But I had to cook the $24 Wagyu on the stove-top, a slightly daunting prospect for a culinary bungler like me.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2021

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

Yet today, Antioco is now widely assailed as a fool, a bungler and worse.

From Forbes • Sep. 21, 2013

He seems to have been a speculative bungler in a new-found art, which he mysteriously hinted was to make a man’s fortune.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac