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BUNGLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bungled mean?
• BUNGLED (adjective)
The adjective BUNGLED has 1 sense:
1. spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness
Familiarity information: BUNGLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness
Synonyms:
botched; bungled
Context example:
a bungled job
Similar:
unskilled (not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency)
Context examples
“That's your seven hundred thousand pounds, is it? You're the man for bargains, ain't you? You're him that never bungled nothing, you wooden-headed lubber!”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
By gum, if you could understand how bad it's bungled, you would see!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
You say this cruise is bungled.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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