- bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed - not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
Antonym: adroit (indirect, via maladroit)
- botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
--1 is one way to fail, go wrong, miscarry
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun bumbler1
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
- stumble, falter, bumble - walk unsteadily; "The drunk man stumbled about"
--2 is one way to walk
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue bumble
- bumble, stutter, stammer, falter - speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room"
--3 is one way to talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something