bungle
A botched or incompetently handled action or situationA botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder.
» Anything worth doing is worth bungling.
shekitten · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesA botched or incompetently handled action or situation; a blunder.
- an embarrassing mistake
Examples
6 sentencesAnything worth doing is worth bungling.
Yanni died in a bungled burglary.
The gang bungled the robbery and got caught.
The company will never recover after that last bungle.
He doesn't bungle anything.
ruОн ничего не делает кое-как. — marafon
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
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