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- adverb In a
bumbling manner
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Examples
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And he was very funny, in that bumblingly effective Brit way, and wise, as the Doctor should be, even when he's screwing up.
William Bradley: A Welcome Blast From the New Doctor Who William Bradley 2011
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And he was very funny, in that bumblingly effective Brit way, and wise, as the Doctor should be, even when he's screwing up.
William Bradley: A Welcome Blast From the New Doctor Who William Bradley 2011
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The Carpenters, 2 clowns dressed as carpenters, using the skit to discuss the cross, as the clowns bumblingly attempt to build a cross.
No Chris Matthews run for the Senate? Ann Althouse 2009
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Thus, no matter how he lies about the reason for his invasion of Iraq, or how badly it has gone, bumblingly and tragically ruinous, with so many lives destroyed, and no matter how many thousands of terrorists it has brought into being, to criticize his policy or the architects of it is said to aid the enemy.
Archive 2008-06-01 News from Mad Plato 2008
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One tends to think of wizards either as bearded and severe, bearded and bumblingly kindly, or bearded and dark and vaguely sinister.
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Thus, no matter how he lies about the reason for his invasion of Iraq, or how badly it has gone, bumblingly and tragically ruinous, with so many lives destroyed, and no matter how many thousands of terrorists it has brought into being, to criticize his policy or the architects of it is said to aid the enemy.
WAR News from Mad Plato 2008
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One tends to think of wizards either as bearded and severe, bearded and bumblingly kindly, or bearded and dark and vaguely sinister.
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The first act is a romantic tragedy in which Shahrukh Khan plays a bumblingly loveable would-be actor who falls for a glamorous Bollywood diva.
Dust Forms Words 100 Must-See Movies: 71 to 80 Greg Tannahill 2008
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The first act is a romantic tragedy in which Shahrukh Khan plays a bumblingly loveable would-be actor who falls for a glamorous Bollywood diva.
Archive 2008-05-01 Greg Tannahill 2008
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She asks him how its going and he bumblingly responds that this is his first torture.
October 18, 2007 Melissa Silverstein 2007
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