bumbling
Speech parts
1. bumbling - Noun
2. bumbling - Adjective
3. bumbling - Verb
4. bumbling - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
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Examples
The beginning of wisdom is to admit to being inept. We're all a bit slow. We have our moments, but in the end, we have to resort to bumbling through. It is what makes conviction so egregious.
I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.
It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway.
People like to define you through what they've seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, 'I've been a bumbling suitor all my life.'
Frankly, it has frustrated me for years to watch Apple's success - while traditional bumbling PC companies continue to ignore the obvious point that yes, design and presentation actually do matter.
One musn't be misled by the amiable, bumbling persona. He is a toughly intelligent man moving confidently in any kind of surroundings from Windsor Castle to Birdland.