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- noun One who
flounders , who behaves clumsily without direction. - noun Someone who fishes for
flounder .
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Examples
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Hey if he sends Boris and Natasha a note could they call it fan mail from a flounderer?
Andrew Sullivan: "There’s a case for feeling that Obama is floundering." Ann Althouse 2009
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Sometimes, in these mazes, one person got nine-tenths of the way through, while the other floundered-and then the flounderer followed the other trail to victory while the nine - tenths person floundered.
Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981
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At their wedding, his best man described him as a cross between Woody Allen and Biggles, part buccaneer, part hopeless, humorous flounderer.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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At their wedding, his best man described him as a cross between Woody Allen and Biggles, part buccaneer, part hopeless, humorous flounderer.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Two quotes, first: "We are left in no doubt, as man after man reveals himself to be a fool or a flounderer, that the world is electrified by the fervor of female intelligence."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Two quotes, first: "We are left in no doubt, as man after man reveals himself to be a fool or a flounderer, that the world is electrified by the fervor of female intelligence."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Two quotes, first: "We are left in no doubt, as man after man reveals himself to be a fool or a flounderer, that the world is electrified by the fervor of female intelligence."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Two quotes, first: "We are left in no doubt, as man after man reveals himself to be a fool or a flounderer, that the world is electrified by the fervor of female intelligence."
GreenCine Daily 2009
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