Synonyms of mucking up

mucking up

verb

present participle of muck up

as in fumbling

to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way

I swear, she mucks up everything she tries

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fumbling
• screwing up
• blowing
• fouling up
• goofing (up)
• messing (up)
• lousing up
• buggering (up)
• dubbing
• murdering
• ruining
• bollixing (up)
• booting
• destroying
• spoiling
• gumming (up)
• bungling
• botching
• mangling
• boggling
• butchering
• fluffing
• bumbling
• foozling
• damaging
• muffing
• marring
• flubbing
• bobbling
• injuring
• wrecking
• impairing
• blundering
• muddling
• hurting
• mutilating
• flawing
• harming
• blighting
• piffling
• vitiating
• mismanaging
• mishandling
• blemishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improving
• helping
• enhancing
• reforming
• refining
• bettering
• remedying
• ameliorating
• rectifying
• meliorating
• repairing
• fixing
• patching
• renovating
• reconditioning
• revamping
• doctoring

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mucking up

But life has a way of mucking up even the best plans, sometimes all at once and sometimes bit by bit and usually a little of both. — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

Amid the memory shortage that's mucking up component prices globally, at least Qualcomm has some promising news for folks hoping to pay less for a daily driver. — Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 7 May 2026

At least not Will Welch, GQ’s longstanding editor-in-chief and global editorial director, who was absolutely zen about the threat of an atmospheric river mucking up the mag’s Men of the Year celebration last night. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025

What's mucking up the process is a telepathic outlier named The Mule (Pilou Asbæk), whose ravenous appetite for galactic dominance has created anomalies in Seldon's branching prognostications of how this whole ordeal will unfold. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025

The hydrogen flow keeps vaporized tin from mucking up the system’s optics. — IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023