Bumbling
Bumbling adjective - Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.
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Inept is a synonym for bumbling in ability topic. In some cases you can use "Inept" instead an adjective "Bumbling", when it comes to topics like clumsy, unskillful, blundering. popular alternative
Inept
Inept adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.
Bumbling is a synonym for inept in clumsy topic. You can use "Bumbling" instead an adjective "Inept", if it concerns topics such as ability, incompetent. popular alternative
Nearby Words: ineptitude, ineptly
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However, he's largely blamed for the performance-enhancing drug scandals which more or less happened on his watch, and this fact has caused him to be portrayed as inept and bumbling.
Source: Useful Notes / Baseball - Captain Fanzone of Transformers Animated is often portrayed as the bumbling, technologically inept Comic Relief — although he's hardly Plucky.
- The Reverend Goodacre in Busman's Honeymoon is a classic bumbling Vicar, complete with an inept attempt at a sherry party.
Source: Literature / Lord Peter Wimsey
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