Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. An act of bumbling, a mistake or error especially through clumsiness.
- v. present participle of bumble.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
Examples
“The Senate Homeland Security Committee says the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, has become a symbol of what it calls bumbling bureaucracy, and it should be abolished.”
“But it falls flat in the futuristic fridge, and she calls a bumbling Quantum Mechanic”
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
“The handsome Canadian spent more than 60 years doing serious roles in movies and on television, but he is probably best known as the bumbling cop Lt. Frank Drebin in the "Naked Gun" spoofs.”
The Washington Post: Celebrity-free Twitter, James Franco, a Pink Floyd movie
“Bush had to resolve doubts that -- of what Gore called the bumbling, babbling Bush.”
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election Presidential Debate: The Voters Respond - October 11, 2000
“The National Intelligence Agency, which could be described as a bumbling brutal fool, should be shut down, according to Kobus”
“Nothing could have been clearer, but Floyd, whom Bruce Catton generously describes as a bumbling incompetent, ignored the letter because, among its wealth of cogent information, it contained one trifling error - the writer stated that Brown had an agent "in an armoury in Maryland".”
“More recently there was John (bomb Iran) McCain, who can best be described as a bumbling old fool.”
“David has been called bumbling, incompetent, nasty.”
“Because of Bush's lack of ability to communicate smoothly, he was characterized as a bumbling fool, and the people believed the accusations without taking into account all of the facts.”
“Toronto holdup detectives dubbed the bumbling robber the Booze Bandit because he was slightly tipsy when he tried to rob the CIBC branch at 790 Bay St., near Toronto Police headquarters on College St., on Oct. 17.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bumbling’.
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
also see:
buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 274 more... -
rolls off the tongue
Words you love saying because they feel and sound so good!
(Not to be conflated with words you love saying because they are onomatopoeic, I have another list for that)gubernatorial, predeliction, quibbling, propensity, proclivity, insidious, nebulous, garble, crabapple, piddling, prattle, wheedling and 11 more...
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mots justes
No true synonyms, no other word will do.
dysphemism, nyehre, conflate, onomatopœic, galumph, zeitgeist, mercenary, theomeny, git, snarky, sass, smarmy and 46 more...
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onomatopoeic
warble, quibble, quirk, drudgery, chortle, snicker, galumph, thwart, schlock, whimsy, garble, miffed and 25 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1856 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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words I love to use
kerfuffle, smarmy, sketchy, grim, wheedle, piffle, prattle, loggerheads, snarky, piddling, nix, caterwaul and 90 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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The Good
madrigal, pantelegraph, echolalia, indigent, velar, revelry, alethiometer, glint, lilt, spectacle, egress, endive and 18 more...
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Leper-chan's Words
thrust, vandalize, tape, disgruntled, defibulator, delicious, holey-hole, stab, kazoo, kapow, delete, fabulous and 87 more...
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