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Fumbling   /fˈəmbəlɪŋ/  /fˈəmblɪŋ/   Listen
Fumbling

adjective
1.
Showing lack of skill or aptitude.  Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, incompetent.  "Did a clumsy job" , "His fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"


Fumble

verb
(past & past part. fumbled; pres. part. fumbling)
1.
Feel about uncertainly or blindly.  Synonym: grope.
2.
Make one's way clumsily or blindly.  Synonym: blunder.
3.
Handle clumsily.
4.
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.  Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil.  "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
5.
Drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder.



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"Fumbling" Quotes from Famous Books



... the whole thing is!" he cried. "What a fumbling old fool old Mother Nature has been! She drives us into indignity and dishonour: and she doesn't even get the children which are her only excuse for her mischief. See what a fantastic thing I am when you take the machine to pieces! ...
— The Secret Places of the Heart • H. G. Wells
... to himself, as though he were examining a life from the outside rather than from the inside, and fumbling at its ...
— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter
... loading pistol should be practiced without looking at it. In order to do this successfully it is necessary to know exactly where the magazines are carried so the hand may find them without fumbling. Also, since the projection at the front of the magazine base is on the same side as the bullets, and the magazine must be inserted in the socket with these to the front, the magazine should be carried in the pocket with the projection to the left ...
— Military Instructors Manual • James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker
... a new medal and a new power," exclaimed the professor. Then, fumbling in his breast-pocket, he drew forth a wallet from which he extracted a small rectangular plate of—apparently—polished silver. It measured about five inches long by four inches broad, and was about a quarter of ...
— The Log of the Flying Fish - A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure • Harry Collingwood
... a sort of huge wallet, and fumbling among its multifarious contents pulled out an old faded paper, which he opened. Roy and Westy, who stood nearest to him could read it plainly enough and see two pictures, profile and ...
— Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp • Percy Keese Fitzhugh


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