Definition of "bungling" []

• Incompetent or inept (adjective)
• An act or acts of incompetence or ineptitude. (noun)
• Present participle of bungle. (verb)

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• "To assume simple bureaucratic bungling is simply simple-minded."
• "She was gambling and I hate to use the word bungling but the case was bungled from the beginning, as we all know."
• "And once you understand this - that a parallel, privatized state has been built for the elites with public money -- it makes Bush's so-called bungling look a lot more sinister."