blunderer

So the incident goes viral, a mishap that makes the man look like a petulant blunderer.

A great uproar was raised, but he was unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always getting caught, was punished for Buck’s misdeed.

Unruh was President John F. Kennedy’s “man in California” — not the governor, whom JFK considered a political blunderer.

Then there’s the revisionist one: Columbus was a blunderer who didn’t know what he was doing and just kind of happened onto the “New World.”

Period three, the boys see that Shakespeare derides the views young men have of women, that Mercutio is a sad creature not a happy one, that Romeo is a blunderer.