fumblingly

Joel teaches Ellie how to siphon gas from parked cars — though when he fumblingly tries to explain the physics behind it, she flashes a wicked smile and says, “You don’t know.”

Their affair, which starts fumblingly and then takes a hard, melodramatic turn, feels like something of a skeleton mount, merely a place where their professional lives can intersect.

In “Incidental Moments,” the strongest and deepest of the trilogy, the Apples have at last moved, fumblingly and hesitatingly, into the outside world.

Then he and Buzz Aldrin gathered rock samples, hopped in lunar gravity and erected a camera that captured the iconic image of Aldrin saluting an American flag they fumblingly planted into the gray moonscape.

I fumblingly jabbed the pen back in its hole and scooted out, deep-frying in embarrassment.