Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bunglesome
Adjective
  • Arturs Silovs looked a bit clumsy in the first period and his rebound control was less than stellar.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Actually, Alma does suffer from ulcers, which cause her extraordinary stomach pain and vomiting at inconvenient moments, and cause viewers to wonder not if but when such clumsy symbolic traits will be trotted out in the future.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In all of the courses, the pedagogy is an awkward pastiche of traditions, combining Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Slavic paganism, Siberian shamanism, and Asian spiritual practices, spiked with elements of Jungian and American pop psychology.
    Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Pignato shared a scene from a recent consult with a rival company that wanted advice on how to bring AI into its engineering workflow, and an awkward generational mismatch.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Like the cumbersome, omnipresent sheriff's duty belt, complete with handgun, handcuffs and the works.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The results are incredibly detailed, although the accessory is cumbersome.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Bunglesome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bunglesome. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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