bungled

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adjective

Incompetently performed; ruined through incompetent action; botched up.

UncommonScrabble 11

Meanings

adjectivebungled (comparative more bungled, superlative most bungled)

comparative more bungled · superlative most bungled

  1. Incompetently performed; ruined through incompetent action; botched up.

    There was a whiff of farce about Southampton’s second goal too, as, six minutes later, a bungled Sunderland pass ricocheted off Will Buckley’s backside to the feet of Dusan Tadic.

    2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2021
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of bungle

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivespoiled through incompetence or clumsiness

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian нескопосан
  • нескопосан (neskoposan)Incompetently performed
Cite this entry
APA

bungled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bungled

MLA

“bungled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bungled. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bungled,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bungled.

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