bumbling

bumbling
bumblingly, adv.
/bum"bling/, adj.
1. liable to make awkward blunders: a bumbling mechanic.
2. clumsily incompetent or ineffectual: bumbling diplomacy.
n.
3. the act or practice of making blunders: The bumbling of their officers cost them the battle.
[1525-35; BUMBLE1 + -ING2]

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