verb
- Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
- usage: "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- Spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly.
- usage: "I bungled it"
- synonyms: bungle
adjective
- Showing lack of skill or aptitude.
- usage: "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"
- synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent
- 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- Mary H. Vorse
- synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed
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