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
• injuring
• bobbling
• 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

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