bungling
1. [ adjective ] showing lack of skill or aptitude
Synonyms: fumbling incompetent clumsy
Examples:

"a bungling workman" "did a clumsy job" "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"

Related terms: unskilled
2. [ adjective ] not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands
Synonyms: heavy-handed butterfingered ham-handed handless ham-fisted left-handed bumbling
Examples:

"a bumbling mechanic" "a bungling performance" "ham-handed governmental interference" "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse

Related terms: maladroit
3. [ adjective ] not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands
Synonyms: heavy-handed butterfingered ham-handed handless ham-fisted left-handed bumbling
Examples:

"a bumbling mechanic" "a bungling performance" "ham-handed governmental interference" "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse

Related terms: maladroit
Similar spelling:   bungaloid
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