bumbling
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(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin. Synonyms: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up. Examples: "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out." "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement."
Verb Definition 1
(verb) walk unsteadily. Synonyms: stumble, falter, bumble. Example: "The drunk man stumbled about."
Verb Definition 2
(verb) speak haltingly. Synonyms: bumble, stutter, stammer, falter. Example: "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room."
Verb Definition 3
(adj) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands. Synonyms: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed. 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."
Adjective Definition 1