(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.
Ineptitude
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness.
(n.) Absurdity; nonsense; foolishness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fact that Moyes did nothing to stem his threat down the right by leaving Shinji Kagawa, who offered no protection to Alexander Büttner, on too long was one illustration of a concerning tactical ineptitude.
(2) But the story of our time, I think, is as much a story about struggling with ineptitude as struggling with ignorance.
(3) In their crass off-pitch antics as well as their humiliating ineptitude, Les Bleus have reminded us of an important truth.
(4) Almost as shocking as Dortmund’s ineptitude on Saturday was the tired emptiness Klopp radiated after the final whistle.
(5) The second reason, however, they called “ineptitude”, meaning that the knowledge exists but an individual or a group of individuals fail to apply that knowledge correctly.
(6) There is, however, an alternative story of the French revolution, no less timely: it reads like a case study of moderate liberals’ ineptitude in times of crisis.
(7) Over and over, western intervention ends up - whether by ineptitude or design - sowing the seeds of further intervention.
(8) Whatever Hodgson's critics may say, he cannot be held responsible for this kind of ineptitude.
(9) The latter is the sort of thing the royals have to endure on tours: a strangely artificial demonstration of ordinariness at which they are either supposed to show surprising aptitude or – all the better for the media – hopeless ineptitude.
(10) The manager's expression as Jordan Henderson slammed an equaliser past Given after City had defended a corner with comprehensive ineptitude was a mask of pain.
(11) He is remarkable for his ineptitude.” “I suggest that you know perfectly well how addressing an officer as PC Plod what would have been his reaction.” “You accept a possibility that you said that to him and if you did as I suggest you did, it shows a complete insensitivity to the police providing your protection.” Later, Browne asked him about another incident, when a trip from Kenya to Somalia was delayed and he was said to have launched into a foul-mouthed tirade and “exploded”.
(12) Where once it was assumed that the person advertising themselves awkwardly on a screen was there because of social ineptitude, it's now much more common – and accurate – to assume that they are instead working 13-hour days in order to convert their unpaid internship into an underpaid graduate job.
(13) Their cruelty was abetted by the apparent ineptitude of local authorities, which failed to intervene at several junctures.
(14) A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their “noble lie”: that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an “existential risk” to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler .
(15) But Boko Haram not only fended off the army’s offensive, it ended up being emboldened by the obvious ineptitude of the Nigerian forces.
(16) Just 18 months into his term he is routinely accused of drift, ineptitude and attention-seeking – while at the same time dodging scrutiny.
(17) Blair failed to add that the military and political ineptitude of the US and – in four southern provinces – British occupation of Iraq gave the insurgents, domestic and foreign, fertile ground on which to operate.
(18) Without his money and the ineptitude of his challengers it is questionable whether he would have done so.
(19) This, and her highly assertive manner in debate, quickly made her an influential figure behind the scenes, particularly as Haig's ineptitudes began to irritate the president.
(20) And weren't particularly impressive; it was Holland's ineptitude that made them look good.