"bumbler" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to describe someone who makes mistakes or is awkward in their attempts to do something. For example: "The clumsy bumbler managed to drop the tray of glasses as he entered the room".
But Mr Hun Sen's reputation does not scrub up quite so easily.In this section Goodbye clenched fist, hello sweaty palm Ceremonial time Ma the bumbler The Kamikaze election A tale of two villages Tenth out of ten ReprintsASEAN is still smarting from the debacle of its annual security forum and foreign ministers' meeting in Phnom Penh in July.
His latex puppet on "Les Guignols de l'Info", a satirical television show, shows him as an amiable bumbler, prone to finishing his sentences with vacuous noises that roughly transcribe as "euhhhh".
Cost of levelling ground for a school: 25,000 rupees".In this section Goodbye clenched fist, hello sweaty palm Ceremonial time Ma the bumbler The Kamikaze election A tale of two villages Tenth out of ten ReprintsIt is all evidence of a quiet upheaval in Chhattisgarh, a state in central India.
Frank Bruni, who covered his election campaign for the New York Times, wrote in 2002 that "the Bush I knew was part scamp and part bumbler, a timeless fraternity boy and heedless cutup, a weekday gym rat and weekend napster".
In the 1950s and '60s he appeared in few westerns and, most notably, in a variety of comedies in which he played a lovable bumbler, such as in the films The Shaggy Dog (1959), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), and Son of Flubber (1963) and in the long-running television series My Three Sons (1960 72).
Holliday's hilarious performance as a wide-eyed bumbler on trial for shooting her unfaithful husband helped convince Cohn to sign her for Born Yesterday 19500).
The scenes in The 40-Year-Old Virgin of a middle-aged bumbler trying and failing to chat up women are echoed, much less funnily, here.
For weeks, those Republican voices, more shrill by the day, have been striving to cast Mr Obama as a venal and incompetent bumbler and America as a country in some kind of death spiral.
One should not be lulled into imagining that Goulson is anything of a bumbler himself.
Chuck Prince, Citigroup's former bumbler-in-chief, is a vice-chairman and "global business ambassador" at Stonebridge, a consulting firm (and on the boards of Xerox and Johnson & Johnson).Such fallen stars have plenty of useful experience, to be sure.
Behind their backs, he called its two chief executives "Potash and Perlmutter", after two bumblers in early Yiddish films.His criticism, to many, seemed less brave.
