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say it: BUHNG-guh-ling
bungling is an adjective meaning "showing lack of skill or aptitude". It is pronounced /ˈbʌŋɡəlɪŋ/ — BUHNG-guh-ling. It carries 2 recorded senses.
showing lack of skill or aptitude
“a bungling workman”
“did a clumsy job”
“his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf”
lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
“a bumbling mechanic”
“a bungling performance”
“ham-handed governmental interference”
“could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bungling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.