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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stumbler
Noun
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For many enthusiasts, these innovations make the game more appealing and even addictive, enabling duffers on public courses to command drives and putts that golfers floundering on the sandy Scottish links more than 600 years ago could never imagine.—
Miles Corwin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 June 2025 -
Finally, and a must for a duffer like me, is a quirky little nine-hole golf course — Chula Vista — that’s monstrously hilly, twisting, tree-and-ravine-laden, with impossible slanting greens.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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As opposed to palookas and has-beens and tin cans and stumblebums, a player who got waived departed with his dignity intact.—
Joe Queenan,
WSJ,
2 Nov. 2018
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Gerald Ford, for all his stumblebum image, was a Yale Law School graduate and veteran of legislative details.—
James Fallows,
The Atlantic,
20 July 2017
Noun
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Suddenly, these two louts are forced to support themselves for the first time.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
29 Dec. 2025
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The drunken louts who mocked and obscenely jeered the European Ryder Cup contenders at last weekend’s event at Bethpage Black golf course on Long Island would have loved it.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Stumbler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stumbler. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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