Bungling in a sentence

After Ivan and Matija failed to silence “shit-for-brains” Josip before he was arrested, the bungling heavies were summoned to a meeting with “the chief”.

A 'healthy and fit' father-of-four is battling bowel after bungling doctors dismissed his stomach pain as an iron deficiency.

Pomerantz resigned from Bragg’s office in February 2022 in protest over what he saw as Bragg’s bungling of a probe into Trump’s finances.

Shipka currently stars in the upcoming drama, “White House Plumbers,” which follows the inept bungling by Watergate burglars E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy as they inadvertently toppled the Nixon presidency.

That said, after bungling the Afghanistan withdrawal, senior Biden administration officials in both the White House and Pentagon cannot claim inexperience.

A bungling burglar was caught empty-handed after smashing a window to get inside a popular chicken restaurant.

Among other things, Trump has spread the false claim about a $750 limit and that there was widespread bungling of the relief response.

Further checks with bungling officials in Thailand, who initially allowed her to slip through the net, revealed she was a fugitive wanted for the mass investment scam worth millions.

Lynch steadfastly denied any wrongdoing, asserting that he was being made a scapegoat for HP’s own bungling — a position he maintained while testifying before a jury during a 2 1/2 month trial in San Francisco earlier this year.

The high-king is understandably perturbed by Galadriel's bungling of the whole Sauron situation, but does the punishment fit the crime?

But few have been more surprising than Doug Ford’s transformation from a carbon-tax hating, license-plate bungling premier into an inspirational national leader.

But if Americans come to see him as bungling the crisis — if they blame him for high death tolls or widespread unemployment, for instance — Trump could wind up even popular than he was before.

Here in the U.S., the Trump administration's bungling has been disastrous, but local public health responses have been vigorous, despite the fact that we're flying blind from lack of widespread testing.

Instead, after failing to bring down Trump with Russia, Russia, Russia and impeachment, they’re now putting their chips on the narrative that he’s bungling the public health crisis.

Joe Biden pointed to his experience helping respond to the Ebola epidemic, while Elizabeth Warren accused the White House of “absolutely bungling” its response to the disease.

Ministers have been accused of bungling plans for MPs to return to parliament in person, after the government said this would happen next week despite the lack of any way for voting to take place safely.

Test and Trace has continued its never-ending downward spiral as official figures today showed the bungling system is reaching fewer cases than when records began in May.

The NCC said Barilaro has forced the Liberal Party to accept outdated environmental policy for a decade, including allowing more land to be cleared, defending feral pests, bungling water management and intensifying logging after the bushfires.

Bungling lorry driver rams straight.

He is universally seen as bungling the situation in Syria.