Definitions

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  • adjective Characterized by blunders.

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  • noun The act of making a blunder.
  • verb Present participle of to blunder.

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Examples

  • Seemingly it's because Sen McCain blundering of information of facts about the War in Iraq has been discovered.

    Obama: McCain should admit he was wrong on surge comments 2008

  • His countenance was the droll medley of fun, shrewdness, and blundering, that is so often found in the Irish peasant, and which appears to be characteristic of entire races in the island.

    Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Arnold Ridley is better known as the blundering Private Godfrey in the TV show Dad's Army, but Nicolas is keen to let people know that there was more to his life than a calamitous comedy character.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • Arnold Ridley is better known as the blundering Private Godfrey in the TV show Dad's Army, but Nicolas is keen to let people know that there was more to his life than a calamitous comedy character.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • Arnold Ridley is better known as the blundering Private Godfrey in the TV show Dad's Army, but Nicolas is keen to let people know that there was more to his life than a calamitous comedy character.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • Arnold Ridley is better known as the blundering Private Godfrey in the TV show Dad's Army, but Nicolas is keen to let people know that there was more to his life than a calamitous comedy character.

    Evening Mail news round-up 2010

  • The development of our terrestrial civilization has always been very ad hoc and kind of blundering forward.

    Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch 2009

  • In 1950, four months after the Korean War began the Republicans made President Truman's quote, "blundering" a key part of their midterm argument.

    CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2006 2006

  • And in each room was the same kind of blundering half-arrangement of furniture, and fire-irons and crockery, and all sorts of odd things on the floor, but there was nothing to eat; even in the pantry there were only a rusty cake-tin and a broken plate with whitening mixed in it.

    The Railway Children Edith 2003

  • And in each room was the same kind of blundering half-arrangement of furniture, and fire-irons and crockery, and all sorts of odd things on the floor, but there was nothing to eat; even in the pantry there were only a rusty cake-tin and a broken plate with whitening mixed in it.

    The Railway Children Edith 2003

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