Definition of "fumbling" []

• Present participle of fumble. (verb)
• An instance of clumsiness, especially of the hands or fingers. (noun)

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• "Many critics have denounced what they describe as the fumbling of the case against former president Moshe Katsav by Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz."
• "But with the spectre of The Hague on the horizon, perhaps this desperate, defensive fumbling is all it has left."
• "As for those instances of humiliation — whether in fumbling through French text before a ten-year-old ... or in the stories that I have lived and that will never be told — my mind now calls up a peaceful bergerie, wherein an unspoiled baby would come to suffer all humility; this, instead of me."