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 →

2) Bungling means clumsy and unskilled, making a mess of things. tree →

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 →
• I bungled the sum and had to start again. tree →
• A bungling helper can spoil the whole game. tree →

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.