fumble-fingered

Each page needed to be numbered, usually at the top right hand corner, and it was a good idea to put your name or the title or both up there, too, in case some fumble-fingered assistant editor dropped a couple of manuscripts and had to try to reassemble them.

Dinosaur Twitches

I was right — those fumble-fingered boys from the machine shop had been in such a hurry that they had forgotten to attach one of the propellers.

I Was Sealed Alive in an Oil Tank « Official Harry Harrison News Blog

If you have fumble-fingered kids or are a gearhead, you'll be happy to know that the ShamWow did hold slightly more spilled milk and used motor oil than sponges and cloths.

ShamWow fails to wow in Consumer Reports tests

It also provides how-to diagrams to help the fumble-fingered master shapes like the Cagney, the Presidential and the Puff.

Tip Sheet

So while my previous statement still holds re dropping a Saturn V into one not wildly affecting the gravitational field it emits, such a fumble-fingered moment would make for a fair bit of radiation.

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And take heart – as I said to my students – you cannot be more fumble-fingered than me.

Tigers & Strawberries » Pastry for Butterfingers

Faithful readers may remember my admission that I am fumble-fingered when it comes to pastry, and that I had vowed within this year to become better able to make pies that not only tasted good, but looked like something other than a map of Australia, or worse, like something a cow stepped in.

Tigers & Strawberries » Sweet Success

After all, he'd bought a device that could record all shows, not one that could record all shows save those that some paranoid Hollywood exec, overzealous broadcaster, or fumble-fingered technician gave him permission to record.

Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives

For example, I've molded my life so I spend a lot of time crunching data and very little time with a wrench in my fumble-fingered hands.

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Kindan worked as fast as he could but he was fumble-fingered in his excitement.

Dragon's Kin