Bumbling
Bumbling adjective - Lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands.
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Synonyms for Bumbling
Stumbling and bumbling are semantically related. in blundering topic. In some cases you can use "Stumbling" instead an adjective "Bumbling".
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Related pairs
- awkward and bumbling
- awkward and stumbling
- clumsy and bumbling
- clumsy and stumbling
- halting and bumbling
- halting and stumbling
- maladroit and bumbling
- maladroit and stumbling
- blundering and bumbling
- blundering and stumbling
- bungling and bumbling
- bungling and stumbling
- unhandy and bumbling
- unhandy and stumbling
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At first, Derek "can't handle the tooth", bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers' homes, doing what tooth fairies do.
Source: Film / The Tooth Fairy - The second film replaced Barbara and Ian with Doctor Who's niece Louise and Tom Campbell, a bumbling policeman who anticipated a couple of TV companions by stumbling into TARDIS thinking it was a real police box.
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