fumblers

She liked the nervous types, the rabbits, the fumblers, the apologizers, the ones plagued with hairtrigger problems.

Beard 2010

So listen up, affair fumblers: There's only one Bill, okay?

Roderick Spencer: Guys, You Will Never Top Him, So Quit Trying! 2009

When it comes to handling the English language, we are all fumblers — with the possible exception of Waugh himself, who, asGore Vidalonce observed, wrote “prose so chaste that at times one longs for a violation of syntax to suggest that its creator is fallible, or at least part American.”

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

In the last thirty years, I've been loved by fumblers, and hurt by experts.

Old Windows and New Eyes 2007

In the last thirty years, I've been loved by fumblers, and hurt by experts.

January 2007 2007

When it comes to handling the English language, we are all fumblers — with the possible exception of Waugh himself, who, asGore Vidalonce observed, wrote “prose so chaste that at times one longs for a violation of syntax to suggest that its creator is fallible, or at least part American.”

H.W. Fowler, The King Of English 2009

Here, take this ticket and stumble home like the rest of the fumblers and tumblers.

Adam Sol: A conversation ending with a poem Lemon Hound 2009

Have we become a nation of bumbling, tumbling, fumblers?

The world sex chart 2007

The crooks and fumblers at Verisign are still trying to stave off the inevitable $100,000,000 payment that Gary Kremen is demanding for their criminally stupid handling of the theft of his sex. com domain.

Boing Boing: February 2, 2003 - February 8, 2003 Archives 2003

This paradise for those who subscribe to do-it-yourself turns modestly competent amateurs into confident renovators and barely competent fumblers into people capable of remodeling their kitchens.

THE NEW MARKET LEADERS Fred Wiersema 2001