(a.) Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman.
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.
Inept
Definition:
(a.) Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.
(1) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(2) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
(3) The head seems to float uncomfortably above the collar, while the doublet is ineptly managed.
(4) Its structure was elucidated by IR, UV, FAB-MS, and various NMR spectra (including NOE, BBD, INEPT, SR, COSY, NOESY etc.
(5) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
(6) I have to say that arranging your move so that you actually become homeless for a month is pretty much the definition of inept.
(7) The structures of the loureirins 1-4 were elucidated through interpretation of their spectroscopic data, with particular use being made of the selective INEPT nmr technique.
(8) As an inexperienced and diplomatically inept minister in the early 1970s, Thatcher clashed with what was later called "the education establishment".
(9) The government has handled the "£9,000 student fees" affair ineptly, near paralysed by political correctness.
(10) "Mr Hester's job at RBS in the last three years has not been made any easier by the incompetence of EU politicians, whose inept and moribund approach to the sovereign debt crisis has trashed the banking sector's value.
(11) spectrum were given for these dolichols by using model compounds and INEPT (insensitive nuclei enhanced by polarization transfer) measurement.
(12) The basic principles applied are the VOSY pulse scheme for volume selection and the INEPT sequence for homonuclear polarization transfer from the CH to the CH3 groups.
(13) "The crumbling of key pillars of Israel's security … coupled with the most diplomatically inept and strategically incompetent government in Israel's history have put Israel in a very dangerous situation," declared New York Times columnist Tom Friedman last month.
(14) So could I counter with a 'tactically inept' regarding England?
(15) But their attempts are suspiciously theatrical and inept – with the "demonstrators" at one point advancing in a hopeless Roman-style assault.
(16) Congress granted qualified immunity from liability for peer review participation to physicians, osteopaths and dentists, created a national practitioner data bank to track inept, incompetent or unprofessional physicians, and enacted procedural rules for due process, privilege restrictions, and reporting and disbursement of information.
(17) The INEPT (insensitive nucleus enhancement by polarization transfer) experiment [Morris, G. A., & Freeman, R. (1979) J.
(18) If you think Isis arose from the US invasion of Iraq, not the vacuum created by its inept occupation and premature withdrawal, good luck again.
(19) Friedman and Schwartz made a convincing case that it was inept monetary management by the Federal Reserve Bank that was the main culprit.
(20) The present Queen’s legacy may look very different once the future of the monarchy is in the inept hands of her eldest son.