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• v  make a mess of, destroy or ruin
• v  spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
• s  showing lack of skill or aptitude
  a bungling workman
• s  lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
  a bungling performance

• How years of misguided policies and bureaucratic bungling left New Orleans defenseless against Katrina and why it may happen again.
• Despite the bungling of the ransom delivery, the police and FBI now had an important clue.
• The Finance Committee of the French Senate last week issued a shocking, 100-page report on bungling in the nationalized French aircraft industry.

• botch
• bodge
• bumble
• fumble
• botch up
• muff
• blow
• flub
• screw up
• ball up
• spoil
• muck up
• bungle
• fluff
• bollix
• bollix up
• bollocks
• bollocks up
• bobble
• mishandle
• louse up
• foul up
• mess up
• fuck up
• clumsy
• fumbling
• incompetent
• bumbling
• butterfingered
• ham-fisted
• ham-handed
• handless
• heavy-handed
• left-handed

News & Articles

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• Jury Awards $750,000 Against Firm for Botched Asbestos Suit
  A New Brunswick law firm has been hit with a $750,000 jury verdict for bungling a multimillion-dollar asbestos case.
  June 8, 2013 - Law.com
• California state auditor to examine child welfare offices
  A California legislative committee requested an audit of child welfare agencies Wednesday after two lawmakers accused county officials of bungling recent cases, including one in Sacramento.
  June 6, 2013 - The Sacramento Bee

Quotes

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• Ralph Nader in Omaha World-Herald (registration)
  You go from Iraq, to Palestine/Israel, from Enron to Wall Street, from Katrina to the bungling of the Bush administration, to the complicity of the Democrats in not stopping him on the war, stopping him on the tax cuts,Nader said on NBC's...
• Mark Holland in Liberal.ca (press release)
  This sell-off was poorly thought out and taxpayers will no doubt be stuck with the bill,said Mr. Holland. "Today's last minute cancellation of the sale of two of the buildings is yet more proof of their bungling."
• David McGuinty in Toronto Star
  The first thing Prime Minister Harper did when he won the election was cancel every climate change program he could find,said McGuinty. "It wasn't until he realized that his bungling of the climate change file was a political liability -...