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# bungling

«bungling» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do a job badly, through clumsiness or lack of skill** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) To bungle is to do a job badly, through clumsiness or lack of skill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bungling/#m1)

2) Bungling means clumsy and unskilled, making a mess of things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bungling/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bungling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bungling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.