bungling

• “To assume simple bureaucratic bungling is simply simple-minded.”

  Balkinization

• “She was gambling and I hate to use the word bungling but the case was bungled from the beginning, as we all know.”

  CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2006

• “And once you understand this - that a parallel, privatized state has been built for the elites with public money -- it makes Bush's so-called bungling look a lot more sinister.”

  John Cusack: The Real Blackwater Scandal: Build a Frontier, You Get Cowboys, Part II

• “Affectionately known as the bungling viscount, since he must be doing something wrong that no woman will ever be seen with him twice, but perhaps you'll be the exception.”

  Tender Rebel

• “Compromise with current morality leads to bungling, which is always despicable, and when practiced by statesmen involves men in ruin.”

  A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli

• “The slow service and the bungling are the natural results of treating the telephone as though it were a road or a fire department; and any nation that rises to a proper conception of the telephone, that dares to put it into competent hands and to strengthen it with enough capital, can secure as alert and brisk a service as heart can wish.”

  The History of the Telephone

• “According to Jane Hamsher, who has the inside scoop on the last-minute politics behind the legislation, the efforts of these lobbyists can only be described as bungling; despite being paid millions to protect the subsidy, they completely failed to see the reconciliation bill barreling down the pipe.”

  Democracy for New Hampshire - Growing the grassroots in New Hampshire's political landscape

• “The center performed just 56 transplants in 2005, compared with approximately 168 each in 2004 and 2003, due to what regulators and critics called bungling and lack of proper oversight.”

  San Francisco Business News - Local San Francisco News | The San Francisco Business Times

• “To spoil any suspense for viewers who might have missed the clumsy name bungling, Avnet immediately reduces the list of possible suspects to two, Pacino and De Niro.”

  Something Awful

• “Bliss, Ireland, Bridge and Lambert all contributed their own interpretations to a book derided unfairly 50 years later as "bungling" by the composer Ronald Stevenson, whose own work is represented on this disc.”

  The Guardian: Bach: A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen and other British transcriptions, Jonathan Plowright (piano)

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