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# bungling

verb (bungle, bungles, bungled, bungling); adjective (bungling)

«bungling» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To bungle is to do a job badly, through clumsiness or lack of skill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bungling/#m1)
2. Bungling means clumsy and unskilled, making a mess of things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bungling/#m2)

### In the lessons

a clumsy or unskilled person who spoils a job, as in a tale where «bungling» hands bring harm

### Examples

- The bungling baker burned the bread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bungling/#x1)
- I bungled the sum and had to start again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bungling/#x2)
- A bungling helper can spoil the whole game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bungling/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths; a bungled sum is simply a wrong answer, with no count changed by the word itself.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bungling» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bungling/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bungling» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bungling.html) on Mova free.