(n.) To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
(n.) To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
(n.) To play fast and loose; to dissemble.
(v. t.) To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’ve seen a mind-boggling 49 goals , compared with 25 at the same stage in 2010 – that's almost double, by my calculations There have been only two draws (six in 2010) A remarkable six teams have come from behind to win (Brazil, Holland, Ivory Coast, Switzerland, Costa Rica and Belgium).
(2) Yousef later writes the following mind-boggling sentences: “But we certainly are less capable than the Israelis of manipulating the media.
(3) If you pull one side, your feet are in the cold.” Quite how long Hazard – who did manage seven minutes off the bench – is shivering out in the wilderness remains to be seen but Chelsea’s predicament requires a creative talent who signed a new five-and-a-half-year contract in February to emulate Willian and Pedro, allying discipline to those mind-boggling flashes of skill.
(4) He says: "One thing that boggled my mind when I was a student was that no one else seemed to be making videos for YouTube.
(5) He developed a parallel career as a rock video director after mentioning in a meeting with record label and film company Warp that he loved the Arctic Monkeys, and ended up directing a string of videos for them (given the band's legendary reticence, the mind boggles at what the initial meeting was like) as well as Vampire Weekend , Kasabian and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs .
(6) Nevertheless, in a country where we were conditioned to see the Conservatives as an endangered species no one much cared about saving, what happened last week was mind-boggling.
(7) The bold and controversial World Cup bid is an integral part of the wider 2030 Vision, a project designed to position Qatar for the future and the day when the natural oil and gas reserves that are the source of its mind-boggling wealth might run dry.
(8) We all know that only the most boggle-eyed ideologue, the type who would be in the vanguard of a murderous revolution stringing dodgy sorts like me from lamp-posts, could ever keep to a diet like this.
(9) But it is Left Behind that continues to dominate the field, spawning spin-off products including – mind-bogglingly – a "kids' series" that has run to more volumes than the original saga, as well as books looking at the Rapture from the military point of view and even video games .
(10) "The idea that the LA Times could be taken over by right-wing radical extremists just boggles the mind," said Glen Arnodo, staff director of the LA County Federation of Labor, as protestors prepared to picket.
(11) He can’t say.” Mr Tennant boggles an eye or two.
(12) Already what you find in the country is mind-boggling.” Chamlou has visited Iran three times this year and recently organised a visit by 35 of her former World Bank colleagues, including half a dozen Americans, who found it an eye-opener.
(13) Chelsea's lavish outlay came on the day the club announced losses of £70.9m for the financial year ending June 2010, with Abramovich's sudden willingness to return to the mind-boggling spending of the early years of his ownership a reflection of the need to strengthen the champions' relatively thin squad.
(14) As there were few new records being released that fitted the style he wanted to play, he began re-editing old ones to freshen them up, splicing tape to make their instrumental passages longer, or snatches of vocal repeat over and over again, adding new sounds, playing them in the club with a drum machine underneath them to alter the sound of the beat: at first, he used the rhythm settings on a home organ – the mind boggles a bit as to what that must have sounded like – but soon moved on to the Roland TR-909 .
(15) What she infers from this is mind-boggling – given that "take or pay" applies to the 27 "first-wave" English ISTCs, and there is strong evidence of underperformance, the overspend south of the border could reach £900m.
(16) Britain has passed plenty of mind-boggling landmarks since 2007 when the credit crisis struck, but news that the government now owes £1 trillion – yes, that's twelve noughts – underlines just how long it will take for the economy to adjust to what Sir Mervyn King, in a speech on Tuesday night, called a "new equilibrium".
(17) But even so, it's hard not to boggle at the level of fame Delevingne has attained.
(18) His visionary art is mind bogglingly detailed fairy fantasy, the most psychotically detailed thing you’ll ever see.
(19) From cosy gay pubs to mind-boggling drag shows and representation in most of the major galleries and arts spaces, there is enough LGBTQ culture to keep you occupied day and night.
(20) There’s a really big willingness to help here in Germany and a mind-boggling number of people that are doing lots for refugees, who are not racist, and I think it’s their voice that should be dominant rather than a handful of simpletons who think they should stir up hatred.” This article was amended on 7 August 2015 to correct the name of the news programme on which Reschke made her comments
Bungle
Definition:
(v. i.) To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
(v. t.) To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; -- sometimes with up.
(n.) A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Financial Conduct Authority has been much in the news because of the bungled announcement of an investigation into pensions and other investments, but do you really understand where they fit into the complicated web of financial supervision that has been constructed in the wake of the crash?
(2) Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling lied about the tape recording of his racist rant in a bungled attempt to neutralise the controversy, according to the National Basketball Association.
(3) Ebola is not an airborne illness; it is contracted when a person is extremely ill and symptomatic.” Cuomo drew a comparison with the response to an outbreak in Dallas, Texas, where the city’s principal hospital bungled its initial contacts with an Ebola patient who later died, Thomas Duncan.
(4) I don’t want to start naming names of living American directors because I’ll leave someone out and they’re friends.” He does, however, observe that with the exception of the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men and The Sunset Limited , which he directed, Hollywood has bungled adapting the novels of his friend Cormac McCarthy.
(5) Police said the suspect had bungled the route and was spotted by an Italian naval vessel.
(6) The Public and Commercial Services union, which represents one of the three Department for Transport employees facing disciplinary proceedings over the bungled procurement process, said public servants had been made scapegoats.
(7) Losing six children is tragedy enough, but through her own act of collusion in a bungled plot?
(8) A referee’s decision is something we have to live with.” Germany had their own chance from the spot 10 minutes earlier, but Sasic, tied for leading scorer of the tournament, bungled her attempt and shot wide of goal.
(9) However frequently Graydon Carter may address the bungles of the Bush administration in his letters from the editor in Vanity Fair, he feels compelled, more often than not, to feature a cover star in a bikini.
(10) Revenge is sweet; now it is Edinburgh that is accused of bungling.
(11) The Davis debacle is another disaster for the Pakistan government, whose handling has been characterised by bungling and division, and highlights the country's pathological relationship with America.
(12) The Kensington and Chelsea council leader, Nick Paget-Brown, stepped down on Friday along with his deputy following another calamitous week that included a bungled attempt by the council to hold a cabinet meeting behind closed doors.
(13) What started as a laudable if ambitious simplification of the welfare system has since been undermined by a toxic mix of hyperbole about what it will achieve, predictable IT bungling and, crucially, a series of stealth cuts that are changing the policy's character in advance of it coming to fruition.
(14) One of the major criticisms of The Wright Way, apart from the title and scripting and performances and set design and soundtrack and ambience and positioning of each individual pixel making up the overall image, is the main character's chosen career: he's a bungling council health and safety officer.
(15) The Scottish broadcaster STV has received an apology from the internet TV service Brightcove after it bungled the streaming of Alistair Darling and Alex Salmond’s TV referendum debate.
(16) The shooting was bungled and, amid the mayhem of west Belfast at that time, it reignited the violent on-off feud between the Provisional and Official wings of the IRA.
(17) BBC business editor Robert Peston, meanwhile, warns that the stress tests already look like a "bungled exercise that may sow alarm rather than calm" in a blogpost here .
(18) The federal government is distancing itself from the bungled Australian Border Force operation saying it would never condone random visa spot checks.
(19) Peter has done some very stupid things in his short life – he has been involved in a massive gang fight and a bungled robbery – but surely he didn't deserve to become a lifer?
(20) For the umpteenth time, Yarl's Wood recently crashed into the news thanks to a bungled deportation of a Sudanese family, in contravention of a ministerial intervention, and a hunger strike and sit-in allegedly met with a brutal response by staff.