Definition of bumbling
:awkwardly blundering or faltering
- a bumbling speaker
- a bumbling attempt to fix the problem
- … many Americans see the F.D.A. as bumbling and inefficient …
- —Herbert Burkholz
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bumblingly
adverb-
- … none of them truly wants him in her home while he tries, bumblingly, to get his act together …
- —Laura Collins-Hughes
