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Bumbling   /bˈəmbəlɪŋ/  /bˈəmblɪŋ/   Listen
Bumbling

adjective
1.
Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.  Synonyms: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed.  "A bungling performance" , "Ham-handed governmental interference" , "Could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"






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"Bumbling" Quotes from Famous Books



... up to the curve they'd rounded last. Its headlight beams glared on the cornstalks growing next to the highway. One headlight appeared around the turn. Then the other. An enormous trailer-truck combination came bumbling toward them. Jill held up her hand for it to stop. Its headlights shone ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins



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