Definition of "floundering" []

• Present participle of flounder. (verb)

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• "His attorneys claimed the FBI tipped the media to searches of Hatfill's home to deflect attention from what they characterize as a floundering anthrax investigation and violated Hatfill's privacy with 24-hour surveillance and wire taps."
• "The way the Repugs are obstructing and the way Dems are floundering is pissing off everyone."
• "The word floundering must have started as a fishy blund (not too infelicitous) for foundering (with blundering, according to the American Heritage Dictionary), but it has survived and has not completely supplanted the word foundering itself."