bungling

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adjective

1. showing lack of skill or aptitude
- a bungling workman
- did a clumsy job
- his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf
• Syn:
clumsy, fumbling, incompetent
• Similar to:
unskilled
• Derivationally related forms:
incompetency (for: incompetent), incompetence (for: incompetent), clumsiness (for: clumsy)
2. 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
• Syn:
bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless,
heavy-handed, left-handed
• Similar to:
maladroit