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clumsy
Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety
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  1. Not elegant or well-planned, lacking tact or subtlety
  2. Awkward or inefficient in use or construction, difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape
  3. Gauche; inept:
unskillful
Not skillful.
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  1. Not skillful.
  2. (Obsolete) Ignorant.
  3. Not skillful; having little or no skill or dexterity; awkward
inept
Showing a lack of judgment, sense, or reason; inappropriate or foolish:
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  1. Showing a lack of judgment, sense, or reason; inappropriate or foolish:
  2. Lacking or showing a lack of skill or competence; bungling or clumsy:
  3. Clumsy or bungling
Find another word for bungling. In this page you can discover 5 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for bungling, like: clumsy, unskillful, inept, awkward and incompetent.

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  • But Lombard conquest was bungling and wasteful; when they had spoiled a city they proceeded to tear down its walls and raze it to the ground.

  • On the 14th of March 1867 Thiers in the French Chamber gave voice to the indignation of France at the bungling policy that had suffered the aggrandizement of Prussia.

  • Philosophy, in the Greek view, should be the art as well as the science of good life; and hedonistic philosophy would seem a bungling and uncertain art of pleasure, as pleasure is ordinarily conceived.

  • On the 15th of May 1870 he was appointed minister of foreign affairs in the 0111vier cabinet, and was thus largely, though not entirely, responsible for the bungling of the negotiations between France and Prussia arising out of the candidature of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern for the throne of Spain, which led to the disastrous war of 1870-71.

  • Although his character is a backwards bungling reporter, Cohen himself is no fool.

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