Sentence examples for bungled from inspiring English sources
The word 'bungled' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a situation where someone has made a mess of something, usually due to incompetence or clumsiness. Example: John tried to fix the computer himself, but he bungled the job and ended up making the problem worse.
(Just think of how it bungled the aftermath of the Maps fiasco).
One man who knew many of them is Simon Mann, an old Etonian former SAS officer who achieved infamy in 2004 with a bungled coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
But then he bungled it all by writing a sincere immigration reform bill.
Miliband struggles on competence – the bungled Manchester speech or the many failures summed up in Fraser Nelson's remark, quoted in Tim Bale's new book on the Labour leader, that Miliband consistently fails to throw a second punch.
It is claimed that every two days a Brazilian woman dies while trying to end a pregnancy, and there are 200,000 hospital admissions a year as a result of bungled procedures.
A bloody thumbprint on a cashbox became the first used in obtaining a conviction in 1905, sending to the gallows the Stratton brothers who battered an elderly couple to death in a bungled raid.
The waste of money on bungled defence contracts is awe-inspiring.
Meanwhile his old adversaries at the Serious Fraud Office have seen their authority severely eroded after a series of bungled prosecutions, culminating in the election campaign proposal to merge it with the other regulatory authorities.
Mr Obama's council, however, makes a different argument: the lower trend was largely in place even before the recession hit.In this section A bungled bank raid The financial-repression levy Hot air And the winner is… Evasive action Us? Risky?
Two of the questions cover education, two address health and the remaining six assess a household's standard of living (see table).In this section A bungled bank raid The financial-repression levy Hot air And the winner is… Evasive action Us? Risky?
Its website offers protest posters and the chance to e-mail MPs.Ministers are determined to avoid the fate they suffered in February, when a bungled privatisation of state-owned woodlands was scrapped after the National Trust (among others) decried it.
