Sentence examples for a bumbling fool from inspiring English sources

The boss is a bumbling fool.

He is too much a man's man to play a bumbling fool for love.

The title character Gilligan is a bit of a bumbling fool, which may mean Ted's a bit like him.

Morgan appears to be a bumbling fool, but he is also the fool in an older, deeper sense: the jester who strips away the veils of illusion to reveal an unpalatable truth.

"Oh God, have I? I deliberately didn't wear my cardie because I thought I'd seem like a bumbling fool, and now look at me!" He hurries off to de-smudge, leaving me cosy in front of the fire.

What everyone seems to agree on is that the killing cannot continue – but few want any kind of capitulation to Poroshenko, whom they bizzarely see as both an evil mastermind and a bumbling fool.

It's funny because I thought about it and I can't make heads or tails of why I ever got laid because just being in the vicinity of a pretty girl makes me a stammering, bumbling fool.

Gilligan was a hapless, bumbling fool most of the time.

In his arguments before U.S. District Judge David Norton, Howe quoted from the Coast Guard investigation of the accident, which concluded, "In SAR [search and rescue] it is far better to be a stumbling, bumbling fool than to do nothing at all". "On this night, on this instance," Howe said, "they were stumbling, bumbling fools, but they didn't do nothing.

And so the only alternative for them now is to try and spin Livingstone as a gaffe-prone bumbling fool.

David Calder's excellent Polonius is not the bumbling fool we sometimes see, but the spymaster general.