as in butcher
someone who bungles an effort
leave it to that blunderbuss to bungle a job that a child could do
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Recent Examples of blunderbuss
Colman is Edith Swan, a middle-aged church lady who still lives with her blunderbuss of a father (Timothy Spall) and mild-mannered mother (Gemma Jones) in a working-class neighborhood of Littlehampton.
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Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
The State Department, in its blunderbuss way, wanted to open up a kind of détente with the citizens of Communist Eastern Europe.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
As a result, all polls (even those with glittering brand names) should be regarded as closer to a blunderbuss than a sharpshooter’s rifle.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
The Agojie’s divisions consisted of five branches: blunderbuss or artillery women, elephant hunters, musketeers, razor women, and archers.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2022
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Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
The State Department, in its blunderbuss way, wanted to open up a kind of détente with the citizens of Communist Eastern Europe.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
As a result, all polls (even those with glittering brand names) should be regarded as closer to a blunderbuss than a sharpshooter’s rifle.
—Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022
The Agojie’s divisions consisted of five branches: blunderbuss or artillery women, elephant hunters, musketeers, razor women, and archers.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blunderbuss
butcher
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At first Spielberg gives you elusive but evocative shots of fins, as well as the shark's own underwater perspective of potential human meals swimming above (to the shark, those legs must look like hams hanging in a butcher’s shop).—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
21 June 2025
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Her latest restaurant project is with Chef Philip Tessier, who’s launching Understudy, a culinary destination in Napa featuring a patisserie, butcher, teaching kitchen, and a culinary museum.—
Kristen Philipkoski,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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“Blunderbuss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blunderbuss. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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