What's the difference between bungling and inexpert?

Bungling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bungle
  • (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.

Inexpert


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of experience or of much experience.
  • (a.) Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The expert and inexpert alike are lining up to warn us not to leave it too late, from consultant gynaecologist Professor Geeta Nargund, who recently advised that women start trying for a baby at 30, in order to avoid falling victim to the “fertility time bomb” hanging over Britain, to broadcaster Kirstie Allsopp, who wrote that she would tell her daughter (if she had one) to have a child at 27 .
  • (2) The undesirable consequences of inexpert primary repair are contrasted with the near normal function and cosmesis obtained after repair carried out with the author's 5-layer suturing technique described here for the first time.
  • (3) Analysis of social factors reveals a high percentage of avoidable factors: 24.2% due to patient errors and 27% due to lack of or inexpert care during antenatal care, and 19% inadequate care in the hospital.
  • (4) A decision support module allows an inexpert user to have access to these models, and to be guided in the choice of the appropriate procedure.
  • (5) The menu-driven interactive approach insures a friendly user-to-system interface, and entails a little training for effective use by health workers inexpert in informatics.
  • (6) Two workmen suffered avoidable fatal injuries from broken parts of abrasive wheels during inexpert handling of these machine tools.
  • (7) But what others see as inexpert opportunism, Trudeau defends on grounds of principle.
  • (8) For cars, Tesla and others have launched what amounts to one of the biggest human-computer interaction experiments in the world to find out, trialling novel control modes and algorithms on inexpert and inexperienced drivers, and streaming data from thousands of vehicles back to the cloud for analysis.
  • (9) It was hypothesized that, as previous studies have shown, a high rate of participation would influence choice of the confederate as leader in the inexpert condition but that talkativeness would not be influential in the expert condition.
  • (10) Based on an inexpert translation of the spidery script by the Guardian, it appears to begin by listing the Tories' "red lines" on which they are not prepared to give ground: Europe, immigration and the Trident nuclear deterrent.
  • (11) On site, the technologies are often inexpertly applied, and along with expensive pharmaceuticals, they become a drain on national resources.
  • (12) Report on intra-abdominal hemorrhage following inexpert injection into the abdominal wall of calcium-heparin concentrate (Calciparin, Nattermann, Cologne) in a patient with septic abortion.
  • (13) Intra- and interobserver variation was lower among experienced morphometrists than among inexpert observers.
  • (14) A confederate in each group was identified as either expert or inexpert, made expert or inexpert contributions, and either talked a lot or relatively little.
  • (15) A complication of inexpert handling of the Olbert catheter system is presented.
  • (16) There's also a section called "bumhunts", a parody of crocodile hunts, in which a sadistic college-boy nomark ambushes a tramp, trusses him up inexpertly, and drags him off, as if he were a crocodile.
  • (17) The possibility of negative histologic results combined with positive cytology is shown to be due to inexpert biopsy.
  • (18) There are 4 arguments against do-it-y ourself testing: 1) it may be inaccurate or inexpertly done, 2) reagents can be hazardous to the health of users or small children, 3) it fails to save money because confirmation by health professionals is usually required, and 4) the individual may not have access to appropriate healt h care resources.
  • (19) "Peter Connolly died because too many unco-ordinated and fragmented services, staffed by too few and inexpert staff, were involved in his care.

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