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Definition of Bunglings
1. bungling [n] - See also: bungling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bunglings
Literary usage of Bunglings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1900)
"... and which usually end with a peace that settles nothing, are, as a rule, due
to the bunglings and the misunderstandings of incompetent statesmen. ..."
2. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1877)
"... had precipitated a conflict in the twenties that the bunglings of two bishops
had only aggravated. Handicapped by his doting and fretful predecessor, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1900)
"If so, his was an honourable madness, the madness of Don Quixote or King Lear,
which is born of the strife of high ideals with the petty bunglings of Nature ..."
4. Works by Herbert Spencer (1892)
"he may read of Admiralty bunglings—of ships ill-built, pulled to pieces, rebuilt,
and patched ; and of a sluggishness which puts the national dockyards ..."
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