bungle🔊

To incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble.

📑 Synonyms: botch mishandle

To act or work incompetently; to fumble.

📑 Synonyms: blunder

💬 Quotations

[T]he trooper fails to fasten the brooch. His hand shakes, he is nervous, and it falls off. "Would any one believe this?" says he, catching it as it drops and looking round. "I am so out of sorts that I bungle at an easy job like this!"

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

A botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder.

📑 Synonyms: botch muddle

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