(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.
Jungle
Definition:
(n.) A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Before the offer for the jungle came in she was meant to be presenting the Plus Size Awards this week, an event supporting plus-size people who are doing amazing things but are overlooked by the mainstream.
(2) The heart of the jungle bush quail is richly innervated.
(3) One little boy grabbed me and pleaded with me, that the Jungle was not a good place, and he didn’t want to be there.” Last month, protesters staged a die-in at St Pancras station in London against plans to clear the area of the Jungle.
(4) They have been in the Jungle for 45 days, and say life has become intolerable.
(5) In fact, in 1993, Dangerfield married Joan Child, a woman 30 years his junior, the owner of Jungle Roses, a national floral distribution company.
(6) Here, abandoned cars don’t just sit and rust, they are swallowed by the jungle.
(7) London's future-soul act Jungle are new at No 7, with another big chart entry for the classic metal act Judas Priest.
(8) A settlement of Temiars, an aboriginal tribe residing in the north-eastern jungles of the Malay Peninsula, was selected for a study of their cardiorespiratory fitness.
(9) As she gazes down from her plane at the sprawling Amazon jungle below, she will hope and pray that, with a number of giant infrastructure projects planned in the region, history is not about to repeat itself.
(10) It was here in 1974 that the heavyweights fought the Rumble in the Jungle under the gaze of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko .
(11) The jungle habitat of the Temuan aborigines harbors a variety of infectious diseases, the most notable being malaria.
(12) Thailand has pressed charges against more than 100 people , including an army general, on counts of human trafficking after dozens of bodies were found in a jungle prison camp earlier this year.
(13) I can see the stripy paws of one of the world's most endangered species bounding unhounded through the jungle.
(14) An endogenous virus-free state has also been reported for three species of jungle fowl and for the B-type viral genes of the mouse.
(15) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
(16) They fight every day, police and jungle people.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Calais migrants: life in the Jungle – video Muslim Hussain says his cousin died two days ago when he fell off a moving train bound for the UK, and he is now trying to work out how to get the body back to their family in a remote region of Pakistan.
(17) The present study sought to determine the effects of such lesions on an operant conditioning task in which the reward was the presentation of one of two conspicuous objects, a stuffed jungle fowl or an illuminated red box.
(18) Natasha Orekhova, 26, a public relations specialist with a real estate firm, stood next to a friend who carried a fork with a pretend snake spiked on its tines, a reference to Putin calling the protesters Bandar-logs, the monkeys hypnotised by a python in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.
(19) Commercially available sealed blood-agar plates have been demonstrated to retain their usefulness for as long as 3 months under jungle conditions without refrigeration.
(20) Spectacular outbreaks of yellow fever, such as the one in Ethiopia in 1960-1962 with 15,000-30,000 estimated deaths, still occur in Africa in areas contiguous to rain forest regions where jungle yellow fever is enzootic.