Definition of "bumbledom" []

• Bureaucracy; mannerisms characteristic of pompous, arrogant or pretentious officials. (noun)

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• "In her speech, she accused Roosevelt of turning American democracy into "a dictatorial bumbledom" through his mismanagement of the war."
• "It's the sheer bumbledom of it all that is so pathetic."
• "Street containing many seventeenth-century houses, its old inns, and its balconied Guildhall -- the scene of so many unseemly wrangles among the robed and cocked-hatted borough councillors who are, _par excellence_, outstanding illustrations of the provincial petty jealousies of bumbledom -- Mrs. Bond was welcomed by the trades-people who vied with each other to "serve her.""